An Adaptive Level Set Approach for Incompressible Two-Phase Flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-124

  Sussman, Mark ^b   Almgren, Ann S ^a   Bell, John B ^a   Colella, Phillip ^a   Howell, Louis H ^a   Welcome, Michael L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Incompressible; Level sets; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SET THEORY; SURFACE TENSION;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; FREE SURFACES; INCOMPRESSIBLE; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS; STEEP GRADIENTS; TWO PHASES FLOW; ZERO LEVEL SET;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0001957869     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6106     Document Type: Article

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