Numerical Simulation of Moving Contact Line Problems Using a Volume-of-Fluid Method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 243-263

  Renardy, Michael ^a   Renardy, Yuriko ^a   Li, Jie ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact line; Volume of fluid method

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

BODY FORCES; CONDITION; CONTACT LINES; FLOW DOMAINS; MOVING CONTACT LINES; NUMERICAL DERIVATIVES; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE-LINEAR; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

CONTACT ANGLE;

EID: 0001532298     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6785     Document Type: Article

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