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Performing incompressible multiphase fluid dynamics simulations requires immense computational power. However, these simulations are vital for gaining a deeper understanding of many interesting scientific processes. Improving the efficiency of fuel injection systems for instance, is crucial to the advancement of many engineering devices. For example, most engines rely on atomization, the breakup of fuel into droplets, to perform combustion. Fuel atomization is a widely studied phenomena within the field of fluid dynamics. However, current simulations that use direct numerical simulations are limited to lower Reynolds and Weber numbers than common fuel injection operating conditions due to the associated computational costs. The computation required for such simulations uses high performance computing resources with more than 10,000 processors running constantly for multiple weeks. The approximation of surface tension forces play an important role in the numerical calculation of these multiphase flow problems. This research explores novel numerical methods for computing the surface tension force and implementing these methods into highly parallel frameworks.