Discretization of Dirac delta functions in level set methods

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-51

  Engquist, Björn ^a   Tornberg, Anna Karin ^b   Tsai, Richard ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; HYDROGELS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; TENSORS;

DIRAC DELTA FUNCTION; DIRAC-DELTA; DISCRETIZATIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SET SIMULATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PIECEWISE SMOOTH; SINGULAR FUNCTIONS; SMOOTH CURVES; SMOOTH SURFACE;

DELTA FUNCTIONS;

EID: 18344388470     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.09.018     Document Type: Article

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