A Method for Capturing Sharp Fluid Interfaces on Arbitrary Meshes

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-50

  Ubbink, O ^a   Issa, R I ^a,b  

^a FLAMENGRO: Fluid and Mech Eng Grp   (South Africa)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free surface flow; Interface capturing; Interface tracking; Unstructured meshes; Volume fraction; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY TOPOLOGY; FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUE; FLUID INTERFACE; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; HIGH-RESOLUTION METHODS; INTERFACE TRACKING; INTERFACE-CAPTURING; SCALAR TRANSPORT EQUATION; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0002056818     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6276     Document Type: Article

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