Modeling phase transition and metastable phases

We propose a model that describes phase transition including metastable phases present in the van der Waals Equation of State (EoS). We introduce a dynamical system that is able to depict the mass transfer between two phases, for which equilibrium states are both metastable and stable states, including mixtures. The dynamical system is then used as a relaxation source term in a isothermal two-phase model. We use a Finite volume scheme (FV) that treats the convective part and the source term in a fractional step way. Numerical results illustrate the ability of the model to capture phase transition and metastable states.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00942942
Author James, François, Mathis, Hélène
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 7, 2026, 02:23 (UTC)
Created May 7, 2026, 02:23 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00942942
Language en
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contributor Mathématiques - Analyse, Probabilités, Modélisation - Orléans (MAPMO) ; Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator James, François
date 2014-02-06T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2024-07-16T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1402.1435
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