TY - GEN A1 - Vallem, Rishindra A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Capabilities and limitations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics for the simulation of two‐phase flow instabilities T2 - Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics N2 - Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a mesh‐free, Lagrangian particle‐based method that is able to simulate multiphase flows in an economical manner. However, its ability to capture the flow regimes and regime transitions in two phase (liquid‐gas) internal flows, such as pipe or channel flows is not yet generally established. To address this lack in understanding, we first examine a laminar rising bubble case in order to evaluate the fluid‐fluid interface representation and transient interface evolution by the solver. With a focus towards the transition mechanism from a stratified flow regime to a slug flow regime, we investigate the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI) both qualitatively and quantitatively, initially focusing on a low density ratio () and then extending it to a high density ratio (). For the low density ratio, we conduct an analysis of the temporal evolution and demonstrate that the SPH solver captures the initial exponential growth in qualitative agreement with inviscid linear stability theory (LST) and reference numerical data for shear‐dominated flow with Richardson number . By conducting eight additional simulations for various for the high density ratio, we demonstrate that the numerically obtained parameter value for instability is around , which is in reasonable agreement with the theoretically expected value of . Based on the SPH results obtained for the range , we suggest a simple parameterization of the reduction of the effective growth rate proportional to . KW - Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics KW - two-phase flow KW - Kelvin-Helmholtz instability KW - rising bubble KW - growth rate Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.202400206 SN - 1617-7061 VL - 24/2024 PB - Wiley CY - Weinheim ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vallem, Rishindra A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Schmidt, Heiko T1 - Numerical modeling and simulation of two-phase internal flow instabilities using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) T2 - STAB Jahresbericht 2023 KW - Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) KW - Kelvin-Helmholtz instability KW - linear stability analysis KW - two-phase flow Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.dlr.de/as/Portaldata/5/Resources/dokumente/veranstaltungen/stab_workshop/Jahresbericht2023.pdf UR - https://www.dlr.de/as/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-128/268_read-1678/ VL - 21/2023 SP - 158 EP - 159 PB - Deutsche Strömungsmechanische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (STAB) CY - Göttingen, Germany ER -