Modeling and Simulation of Mixture Flows : Application to Powder-Snow Avalanches
Abstract
We are concerned with the numerical simulation of certain multi-fluids
flows, which in particular arise in the modeling of powder-snow avalanches. The behavior of the mixture is
described through a single mass density and a velocity field, with an unusual constraint that
relates the divergence of the velocity to derivatives of the density. We discuss a derivation of
the model from a Eulerian-Lagrangian description of the mixture. We propose a numerical
scheme based on a hybrid Finite Volume/Finite Element method. This approach is validated
by comparison to analytical solutions, numerical solutions and experimental data. The scheme
works on unstructured meshes and it can be advantageously coupled to mesh refnements
strategies in order to follow fronts of high density variation. We explore numerically the
role of the leading coeffcients that characterize the
flow: the Froude, the Reynolds and the
Schmidt numbers.
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