A new computational method for free surface problems

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 409-436

  Rice, Jeremy ^a   Faghri, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES;

LIQUID-VAPOR INTERFACE; SEMI-LEGRANGIAN MESH; SURFACE VELOCITY CORRECTION (SVC); VOLUME-OF-FLUID (VOF);

SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

EID: 33745261597     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790500434141     Document Type: Article

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