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Two-phase flow problem plays an important role in many scientific and engineering processes. The problem can be described by a phase-field model consisting of the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes equations with the generalized Navier boundary condition. Accurate simulation of the interface and contact line motion requires very fine meshes, and the computation in 3D is even more challenging. Thus, the use of high performance computers and scalable parallel algorithms are indispensable. In this paper, we introduce a finite element method on unstructured 3D meshes with a semi-implicit time integration scheme, and a highly parallel solution strategy using different solvers for different components of the discretization. More precisely, we apply a restricted additive Schwarz preconditioned GMRES method to solve the systems arising from implicit discretization of the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the velocity equation, and an algebraic multigrid preconditioned CG method to solve the pressure Poisson system. Numerical experiments show that the strategy is efficient and scalable for 3D problems with complex geometry and on a supercomputer with a large number of processors.
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Luo, L., Zhang, Q., Wang, XP., Cai, XC. (2017). A Parallel Two-Phase Flow Solver on Unstructured Mesh in 3D. In: Lee, CO., et al. Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXIII. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 116. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52389-7_39
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