A Simple Weighted Integration Method for Calculating Surface Tension Force to Suppress Parasitic Flow in the Level Set Approach1 1 Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20490206) and the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2004CB217604).

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 740-746

  WANG, Jianfeng ^a,b   YANG, Chao ^a   MAO, Zaisha ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

level set approach; numerical simulation; parasitic flow; surface tension; weighted integration method

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SURFACE TENSION;

LEVEL SET APPROACH; PARASITIC FLOW; WEIGHTED INTEGRATION METHOD (WIM);

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MULTIPHASE FLOW; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 33845987094     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1004-9541(07)60005-6     Document Type: Article

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