Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking with Smoothed Surface Stress Methods for Three-Dimensional Flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 423-456

  Gueyffier, Denis ^a   Li, Jie ^a,b   Nadim, Ali ^a,c   Scardovelli, Ruben ^a,d   Zaleski, Stéphane ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^b Virginia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIENCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capillary waves; Drops and bubbles; Interfaces; Liquid bridges; Multiphase flow; Non homogeneous flows; Numerical simulation; Pendant drops; Reconnection of interfaces; Sedimenting arrays

Indexed keywords

DROPS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CAPILLARY WAVE; DROPS AND BUBBLES; HOMOGENEOUS FLOW; LIQUID BRIDGE; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS FLOW; PENDANT DROP; RECONNECTION OF INTERFACE; SEDIMENTING; SEDIMENTING ARRAY;

SURFACE STRESS;

EID: 0346207426     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6168     Document Type: Article

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