On the finite volume discretization of discontinuous body force field on collocated grid: Application to VOF method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 524-538

  Mencinger, Jure ^a   Žun, Iztok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Body force; Collocated grid; Continuum surface force; Parasitic currents; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

BODY FORCES; COLLOCATED GRIDS; CONTINUUM SURFACE FORCES; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; FORCEFIELDS; GRID APPLICATIONS; PARASITIC CURRENT; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD; ZERO VELOCITY;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 33846355715     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.06.021     Document Type: Article

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