Conservative multigrid methods for Cahn-Hilliard fluids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 511-543

  Kim, Junseok ^a   Kang, Kyungkeun ^b   Lowengrub, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Fluid flow; Interfacial tension; Nonlinear multigrid method

Indexed keywords

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MORPHOLOGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE TENSION;

CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CAHN-HILLIARD SYSTEMS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FLUID-FLOW; MULTIGRID METHODS; NAVIER STOKES; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID METHOD; PINCHOFF; SECOND ORDERS;

SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 0346332035     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.07.035     Document Type: Article

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