A high-order fully Lagrangian particle level-set method for dynamic surfaces

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Abstract

We present a fully Lagrangian particle level-set method based on high-order polynomial regression. This enables meshfree simulations of dynamic surfaces, relaxing the need for particle-mesh interpolation. Instead, we perform level-set redistancing directly on irregularly distributed particles by polynomial regression in a Newton-Lagrange basis on a set of unisolvent nodes. We demonstrate that the resulting particle closest-point (PCP) redistancing achieves high-order accuracy for 2D and 3D geometries discretized on irregular particle distributions and has better robustness against particle distortion than regression in a monomial basis. Further, we show convergence in classic level-set benchmark cases involving ill-conditioned particle distributions, and we present an example application to multi-phase flow problems involving oscillating and dividing droplets.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number113262
JournalJournal of computational physics
Volume515
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Keywords

Keywords

  • Closest point transform, Dynamic surfaces, Geometric computing, Level-set methods, Multi-phase flow, Particle methods