A level set characteristic Galerkin finite element method for free surface flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 521-547

  Lin, Ching Long ^a   Lee, Haegyun ^a   Lee, Taehun ^a   Weber, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broken dam; Characteristic Galerkin method; Free surface flow; Level set method; Solitary wave; Unstructured mesh

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DAMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VORTEX FLOW;

BROKEN DAM; CHARACTERISTIC GALERKIN METHOD; FREE SURFACE FLOWS; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEVEL SET METHOD; SOLITARY WAVE; UNSTRUCTURED MESH;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FREE SURFACE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SOLITARY WAVE;

EID: 25844445201     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1006     Document Type: Article

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