Simulations of Particle-Laden Flows with Large Dispersed-Phase Size Disparities Using Scalable Parallel Adaptive Methods
Abstract
The numerical simulation of multiphase flows involving dispersed components with large scale disparities, such as the collisions between millimeter-sized bubbles and micron-sized mineral particles in flotation, poses a significant computational challenge. Accurately resolving the thin boundary layers of finite-size objects while tracking massive numbers of small particles within a large turbulent domain is often prohibitively expensive on uniform grids. To address this, we present a parallel scalable computational framework that couples the lattice Boltzmann method with the immersed boundary method on a dynamically adaptive octree grid. A key algorithm is developed for the efficient parallel host-cell searching, which significantly accelerates the tracking of Lagrangian points on distributed unstructured grids. The accuracy and robustness of the code are rigorously validated against canonical benchmarks, including the flow induced by an oscillating cylinder and the sedimentation of a sphere. The framework is applied to the multiscale problem of bubble-particle collisions. In quiescent flow, the simulations accurately capture the hydrodynamic interception mechanism, reproducing the theoretical collision efficiency scaling law proportional to the square of the particle-to-bubble size ratio. Furthermore, the framework is applied to the simulation of fully resolved bubbles interacting with inertial point particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
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BibTeX
@misc{jiang2026simulations,
title = {{Simulations of Particle-Laden Flows with Large Dispersed-Phase Size Disparities Using Scalable Parallel Adaptive Methods}},
author = {Linfeng Jiang and Enrico Calzavarini and Dominik Krug},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.20565},
eprint = {2605.20565},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20565},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Simulations of Particle-Laden Flows with Large Dispersed-Phase Size Disparities Using Scalable Parallel Adaptive Methods
AU - Linfeng Jiang
AU - Enrico Calzavarini
AU - Dominik Krug
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20565
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20565
AB - The numerical simulation of multiphase flows involving dispersed components with large scale disparities, such as the collisions between millimeter-sized bubbles and micron-sized mineral particles in flotation, poses a significant computational challenge. Accurately resolving the thin boundary layers of finite-size objects while tracking massive numbers of small particles within a large turbulent domain is often prohibitively expensive on uniform grids. To address this, we present a parallel scalable computational framework that couples the lattice Boltzmann method with the immersed boundary method on a dynamically adaptive octree grid. A key algorithm is developed for the efficient parallel host-cell searching, which significantly accelerates the tracking of Lagrangian points on distributed unstructured grids. The accuracy and robustness of the code are rigorously validated against canonical benchmarks, including the flow induced by an oscillating cylinder and the sedimentation of a sphere. The framework is applied to the multiscale problem of bubble-particle collisions. In quiescent flow, the simulations accurately capture the hydrodynamic interception mechanism, reproducing the theoretical collision efficiency scaling law proportional to the square of the particle-to-bubble size ratio. Furthermore, the framework is applied to the simulation of fully resolved bubbles interacting with inertial point particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
ER -