Liquid-vapor phase change in basilisk

[Stephane Zaleski]

Dear all

Yash Kulkarni, Xiangbin Chen and I are planning to implement the liquid-vapor thermally activated phase change model developed by Leon Malan in his PhD thesis in basilisk. We would be curious to know whether anyone has attempted a similar development. We are aware of Quentin Magdelaine's work

Lalanne, C., Magdelaine, Q., Lequien, F. and Fullana, J.M., 2021. Numerical model using a Volume-Of-Fluid method for the study of evaporating sessile droplets in both unpinned and pinned modes. European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 89, pp.267-273.

but not of anything else. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Best

Stéphane Zaleski

[Nicolò Scapin]

Hello Stéphane,

Here are a couple of references I had a chance to see in the past:

1. This article. Here's they have something slightly more complicated as they impose a Robin boundary condition on the moving interface, rather than Dirichlet type. It is a good reference also for liquid-vapor thermally activated phase change, although I am not sure if they have released the source code;
2. This article. Here's they focus more on the physics with some mentions of the numerics and from what I have seen, they have used Quentin Magdelaine's code and sandbox (it is cited).
   

Hope this helps. If something else pops into my mind, I will write here.

Best,

Nicolo' Scapin