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A fully conservative scheme, which can conserve mass, momentum and kinetic energy in the case of infinity Reynolds number, has been designed for simulation of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flows at low magnetic Reynolds numbers. The convective term and the pressure term are discretized by employing a central-symmetrical scheme, and the Lorentz force is calculated by designing a consistent and conservative scheme on a staggered mesh. The consistent and conservative scheme can guarantee the calculated current density conserve the charge and the calculated Lorentz force conserve the momentum. The fully conservative scheme is in favor of direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) of MHD instability and MHD turbulence. The validation and verification of the scheme has been conducted for MHD at low magnetic field or high magnetic field, conductive wall or insulated wall, uniform magnetic field or strong gradient of magnetic field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A volume-of-fluid method for simulation of incompressible multiphase flows with phase change is studied. We have simulated a series of processes of the vapor bubble deformation in a three-dimensional film boiling using volume of fluid (VOF) method, which include the generation, detachment and rising deformation of the bubble. Our numerical results show that the VOF method is a useful method to handle complex deformation of the liquid-vapor interface during film boiling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]