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198 A. Bonito et al.<br />

each of its parts at time t n contributes to bubbles B1 n+1 <strong>and</strong> B2 n+1 .The<br />

volume fraction of bubble B1 n which contributes to bubble B n+1<br />

j is noted<br />

V n+1/2<br />

1,j , j =1, 2. The pressure in the bubble B n+1<br />

j is computed by taking<br />

into account the compression/decompression of the two fractions of bubbles<br />

P n+1<br />

j = P1 n V n+1/2<br />

1,j /V n+1<br />

j , j =1, 2.<br />

Details of the implementation require to take into account several situations,<br />

when two bubbles at time t n <strong>and</strong> t n+1 do or do not intersect between<br />

two time steps, <strong>and</strong> are detailed in [CPR05]. The value of the pressure can be<br />

inserted as a boundary term in (9) for the resolution of the generalized Stokes<br />

problem (7), (8).<br />

Remark 3. By using the divergence theorem in the variational formulation (9)<br />

<strong>and</strong> the fact that P n+1 is piecewise constant, the integral on the free surface<br />

Γ n+1<br />

h<br />

is transformed into an integral on Ω n+1<br />

h<br />

<strong>and</strong>, therefore, an approximation<br />

of the normal vector n is not explicitly needed.<br />

3.3 Numerical Results<br />

Numerical results are presented here for mold filling simulations in order<br />

to show the influence of the gas pressure <strong>and</strong> to compare with results in<br />

Section 2.4.<br />

The same S-shaped channel is initially filled with gas at atmospheric pressure<br />

P = 101300 Pa. A valve is located at the upper extremity of the channel<br />

allowing gas to escape. Numerical results (cf. Figure 6) show the persistence<br />

of the bubbles. The CPU time for the simulations is approximately 344 min<br />

with the bubbles computations (to compare with 319 min in Section 2).<br />

Fig. 6. S-shaped channel: 3D results when the cavity is initially filled with compressible<br />

gas at atmospheric pressure. Time equals 8.0 ms,26.0 ms,44.0 ms <strong>and</strong><br />

53.9 ms.

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