Modeling and numerical study of two phases flow

This thesis describes the modelisation and the simulation of two-phase systems composed of droplets moving in a gas. The two phases interact with each other and the type of model to consider directly depends on the type of simulations targeted. In the first part, the two phases are considered as fluid and are described using a mixture model with a drift relation (to be able to follow the relative velocity between the two phases and take into account two velocities), the two-phase flows are assumed at the equilibrium in temperature and pressure. This part of the manuscript consists of the derivation of the equations, writing a numerical scheme associated with this set of equations, a study of this scheme and simulations. A mathematical study of this model (hyperbolicity in a simplified framework, linear stability analysis of the system around a steady state) was conducted in a frame where the gas is assumed barotropic. The second part is devoted to the modelisation of the effect of inelastic collisions on the particles when the time of the simulation is shorter and the droplets can no longer be seen as a fluid. We introduce a model of inelastic collisions for droplets in a spray, leading to a specific Boltzmann kernel. Then, we build caricatures of this kernel of BGK type, in which the behavior of the first moments of the solution of the Boltzmann equation (that is mass, momentum, directional temperatures, variance of the internal energy) are mimicked. The quality of these caricatures is tested numerically at the end.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00598571
Author Champmartin, Aude
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 17, 2026, 09:23 (UTC)
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Identifier NNT: 2011DENS0007
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contributor Centre de Mathématiques et de Leurs Applications (CMLA) ; École normale supérieure - Cachan (ENS Cachan)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Champmartin, Aude
date 2011-02-28T00:00:00
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