Volume of Fluid (VOF) Method

Inlet (Fully developed)

 Purely Eulerian approach

 Kinematic boundary condition on the free-

surface in not tracked
Wall Wall
 Fixed mesh, no remeshing required
Symmetry

 Less accurate

 Injection molding and Cavity filling

applications
Exit (Vanishing forces)

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Swell using VOF Method – Giesekus model
Q = 3*105 m3/s

   
I   .     2D
  
vx = v y = 0
Symmetry

η = 10000 Pa.s
λ = 0.02 s
α = 0.1

fn = fs = 0

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Swell using VOF Method – PTT (3m)