Dr Jie Li
Associate Professor
Dr Li’s research focuses on the investigation of multiphase flows using state of the art numerical methods. Multiphase flows are ubiquitous in technology applications. Examples include inkjet printing, cavitation (formation of vapour bubbles in sufficient low pressure regions) and spray (combustion of liquid fuels in droplet forms). Multiphase flows are in general highly nonlinear and analytically intractable. Our present state of knowledge in this area is far from complete and ripe for further research.
Dr Li’s expertise lies on interface tracking methods and the modelling of the physical phenomena on the interface. He is among the early pioneers who invented independently a second order Volume of Fluid (VOF) method, a very popular interface tracking method nowadays. He has also developed a highly accurate and efficient adaptive mesh method which is tailed for the study of moving boundary problems. He has used his methods to investigate important phenomena involved in multiphase flows, including viscoelasticity, surface tension, surfactant, contact line, triplet point, rarefied gas dynamics, droplet collisions and droplet impact on solid walls.
Publications
2020
An exactly force-balanced boundary-conforming arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian method for interfacial dynamics Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 408, 2020.
2019
A comparative study of interface-conforming ALE-FE scheme and diffuse interface AMR-LB scheme for interfacial dynamics Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 395, pp. 602 – 619, 2019.
2018
Numerical simulation for a rising bubble interacting with a solid wall: Impact, bounce, and thin film dynamics Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 30, no. 11, 2018.
2016
Macroscopic model for head-on binary droplet collisions in a gaseous medium Journal Article
In: Physical Review Letters, vol. 117, no. 21, 2016.
2013
An arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method for three-phase flows with triple junction points Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 251, pp. 1 – 16, 2013.
2010
The impulsive motion of a small cylinder at an interface Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1 – 12, 2010.
2009
Influence of surfactant solubility on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or capillary jet in a viscous fluid Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 21, no. 7, 2009.
2008
Influence of insoluble surfactant on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or thread in a viscous fluid Journal Article
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 594, pp. 307 – 340, 2008.
2007
The development of asymmetry for oscillatory flow within a tube containing sharp edge periodic baffles Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 19, no. 11, 2007.
Ligament formation in sheared liquid-gas layers Journal Article
In: Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 59 – 76, 2007.
2006
A Lagrangian-Eulerian approach for the numerical simulation of free-surface flow of a viscoelastic material Journal Article
In: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 136, no. 2-3, pp. 157 – 166, 2006.
The beads-on-string structure of viscoelastic threads Journal Article
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 556, pp. 283 – 308, 2006.
The effect of an insoluble surfactant on the skin friction of a bubble Journal Article
In: European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 59 – 73, 2006.
2005
An arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method for moving-boundary problems and its application to jumping over water Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 208, no. 1, pp. 289 – 314, 2005.
2004
On the evolution and rupture of filaments in Giesekus and FENE models Journal Article
In: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 1 – 16, 2004.
A viscoelastic VOF-PROST code for the study of drop deformation Conference
vol. 3, 2004.
2003
Drop dynamics on the beads-on-string structure for viscoelastic jets: A numerical study Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 922 – 937, 2003.
2002
Drop fragment distributions under shear with inertia Journal Article
In: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1125 – 1147, 2002.
2001
Merging of drops to form bamboo waves Journal Article
In: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 753 – 763, 2001.
Numerical Simulation of Moving Contact Line Problems Using a Volume-of-Fluid Method Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 171, no. 1, pp. 243 – 263, 2001.
2000
Numerical simulation of breakup of a viscous drop in simple shear flow through a volume-of-fluid method Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 269 – 282, 2000.
Shear-induced rupturing of a viscous drop Conference
vol. 253, 2000.
Shear-induced rupturing of a viscous drop in a Bingham liquid Journal Article
In: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 95, no. 2-3, pp. 235 – 251, 2000.
Numerical study of flows of two immiscible liquids at low Reynolds number Journal Article
In: SIAM Review, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 417 – 439, 2000.
1999
Two-dimensional Navier-Stokes simulation of breaking waves Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 121 – 133, 1999.
Direct simulation of unsteady axisymmetric core-annular flow with high viscosity ratio Journal Article
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 391, pp. 123 – 149, 1999.
Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking with Smoothed Surface Stress Methods for Three-Dimensional Flows Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 423 – 456, 1999.
1998
A numerical study of periodic disturbances on two-layer Couette flow Journal Article
In: Physics of Fluids, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 3056 – 3071, 1998.