A Front-Tracking Method for the Computations of Multiphase Flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 708-759

  Tryggvason, G ^a   Bunner, B ^b   Esmaeeli, A ^c   Juric, D ^d   Al Rawahi, N ^c   Tauber, W ^c   Han, J ^c   Nas, S ^e   Jan, Y J ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b European Headquarter and Development Center   (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA FUNCTIONS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE TENSION;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; FIXED GRIDS; FRONT TRACKING METHOD; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; SOURCE TERMS; STRUCTURED GRID; VARIABLE MATERIAL PROPERTY;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 0001313878     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6726     Document Type: Article

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