Adaptive Mesh Refinement Computation of Solidification Microstructures Using Dynamic Data Structures

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 265-290

  Provatas, Nikolas ^a,b   Goldenfeld, Nigel ^a   Dantzig, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW; UNDERCOOLING;

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DYNAMIC DATA STRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT GRID; MICRO-STRUCTURES; PHASE FIELD MODELS; REFINEMENT COMPUTATION; SOLIDIFICATION MICROSTRUCTURES; UNDERCOOLINGS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0000945296     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6122     Document Type: Article

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