A projection-based particle method with optimized particle shifting for multiphase flows with large density ratios and discontinuous density fields

A novel projection-based particle method is presented for simulation of multiphase flows characterized by large density ratios and discontinuous density fields at the phase interface. The method considers a multi-fluid continuous system and comprises of a specific computational algorithm utilizing the recently developed Optimized Particle Shifting (OPS [1]) scheme to maintain the regularity of particles at the phase interface and free-surface. The method is founded on an improved version of Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS [2]) as a projection-based particle method. A set of previously developed improved schemes are also adopted and hence the proposed method is referred to as improved MPS + OPS. Validations are made both qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of accuracy, energy conservation properties as well as convergence properties by consideration of several benchmark tests. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.