# Title: Circular droplet in equilibrium # # Description: # # A circular droplet of diameter $D=0.8$ is initialised centered on # the top-left corner of the unit box. Surface tension is imposed on # the interface. The exact solution is given by Laplace's law: uniform # zero velocity and a pressure jump accross the interface exactly # balancing the surface tension force. # # The initial condition -- while close to the exact solution -- does # not guarantee the exact balance between the numerical # discretisations of surface tension and pressure gradient. However, # these small initial perturbations generate small capillary waves # which are progressively (on a timescale of order $D^2/\mu$) damped # by viscosity so that the exact (to round-off error) balance is # eventually obtained. # # The convergence is obtained for a wide range of Laplace numbers # $La=\sigma\rho D/\mu^2$, as illustrated on Figure \ref{laplace}. # Correspondingly, convergence of the curvature to a constant value is # also obtained at all Laplace numbers as illustrated on Figure # \ref{curvature}. # # Figure \ref{convergence} illustrates the convergence of the error on # the droplet shape as a function of resolution for a Laplace number # of 12000. Both the shape error and the relative error on the # equilibrium curvature value illustrated on Figure # \ref{kconvergence} show close to second-order convergence. # # \begin{figure}[htbp] # \caption{\label{laplace}Evolution of the amplitude of the capillary currents # $\max(|{\bf u}|)(D/\sigma)^{1/2}$ as a function of # non-dimensional time $\tau=t\mu/D^2$ for the range of Laplace # numbers indicated in the legend.} # \begin{center} # \includegraphics[width=0.8\hsize]{laplace.eps} # \end{center} # \end{figure} # # \begin{figure}[htbp] # \caption{\label{curvature}Evolution of the standard deviation of the # value of the curvature along the interface as a function of # non-dimensional time $\tau=t\mu/D^2$ for the range of Laplace # numbers indicated in the legend.} # \begin{center} # \includegraphics[width=0.8\hsize]{curvature.eps} # \end{center} # \end{figure} # # \begin{figure}[htbp] # \caption{\label{convergence}Convergence of the error on the equilibrium shape of the # droplet with resolution. The diameter is given in number of grid # points.} # \begin{center} # \includegraphics[width=0.8\hsize]{convergence.eps} # \end{center} # \end{figure} # # \begin{figure}[htbp] # \caption{\label{kconvergence}Convergence of the relative error on the # equilibrium curvature value with resolution. The diameter is given # in number of grid points.} # \begin{center} # \includegraphics[width=0.8\hsize]{kconvergence.eps} # \end{center} # \end{figure} # # Author: St\'ephane Popinet # Command: sh spurious.sh spurious.gfs 1e-11 # Version: 1.1.2 # Required files: spurious.sh convergence.ref kconvergence.ref # Generated files: laplace.eps curvature.eps convergence.eps kconvergence.eps # Define CIRCLE (ellipse (-0.5,0.5,0.4,0.4)) Define MU sqrt(0.8/LAPLACE) 1 0 GfsSimulation GfsBox GfsGEdge {} { Time { end = TMAX } Refine LEVEL RefineSurface {return 10;} CIRCLE ApproxProjectionParams { tolerance = 1e-6 } ProjectionParams { tolerance = 1e-6 } AdvectionParams { scheme = none } VariableTracerVOF T VariableCurvature K T SourceTension T 1 K SourceDiffusion U MU SourceDiffusion V MU InitFraction T CIRCLE Init {} { Tref = T } AdaptGradient { istep = 1 } { cmax = 1e-6 maxlevel = LEVEL } T EventStop { istep = 10 } T DT OutputSimulation { start = end } stdout { depth = LEVEL } OutputScalarNorm { istep = 1 } { awk '{ print MU*$3/(0.8*0.8), $9*sqrt(0.8) }' > La-LAPLACE-LEVEL } { v = Velocity } OutputScalarNorm { istep = 1 } { awk '{ print MU*$3/(0.8*0.8), $5, $7, $9 }' > E-LAPLACE-LEVEL } { v = (Tref - T) } OutputScalarStats { istep = 1 } { awk '{ print MU*$3/(0.8*0.8), $5, $7, $9, $11 }' > K-LAPLACE-LEVEL } { v = (K - 2.50771) } OutputScalarNorm { istep = 1 } { awk '{ print MU*$3/(0.8*0.8), $5, $7, $9 }' > EK-LAPLACE-LEVEL } { v = (T > 0 && T < 1 ? K - 2.5 : 0) } } GfsBox { top = Boundary left = Boundary }