Lin, S.-Y.S.-Y.LinChen, Y.-C.Y.-C.ChenYang, F.-L.F.-L.YangChen, C.-S.C.-S.ChenHsieh S.-H.2020-01-132020-01-132016https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/447275This paper develops an improved pressure correction method, coupled with volume-of-fluid (VOF) and immersed boundary (IB) methods, to accelerate multiphase flow computations. A momentum interpolation method (MIM) is used to avoid the issue of a checkerboard pressure field on a non-staggered grid system. A transpose-free quasi-minimal residual (TFQMR) method is applied to reduce the CPU time when solving the Poisson equation for the pressure correction procedure. A suitable initial guess for the TFQMR method is investigated to enhance the stability of the matrix solver. The IB method is applied to treat the solid-wall boundary conditions while OpenMP is used to reduce CPU time. Two physical problems - dam breakage and a water wave impacting on a tall structure - are simulated and compared with known data. The improved numerical scheme has CPU speeds at least 8 times faster than the initial numerical scheme for simulating two-phase flows. With regard to the parallel computational efficiency, using six cores with the OpenMP allows the improved scheme to have 77% parallel efficiency. These modifications greatly enhance overall computational accuracy and efficiency.[SDGs]SDG6journal article10.1016/j.apm.2015.08.0142-s2.0-84955141220https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955141220&doi=10.1016%2fj.apm.2015.08.014&partnerID=40&md5=cf8b59fda9cea4c68a2fbd10cd889c98