Adaptive unstructured volume remeshing - II: Application to two- and three-dimensional level-set simulations of multiphase flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 626-650

  Zheng, Xiaoming ^a,d   Lowengrub, John ^a,d   Anderson, Anthony ^b,e   Cristini, Vittorio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DROP BREAKUP; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE REMESHING; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; ELEMENT LEVEL; FLUID FLUID INTERFACES; LEVEL SET SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE; REMESHING; REMESHING ALGORITHM; TETRAHEDRA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 19744364600     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.024     Document Type: Article

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