Level set calculations for incompressible two-phase flows on a dynamically adaptive grid

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 75-98

  Di, Yana ^a   Li, Ruo ^a   Tang, Tao ^b   Zhang, Pingwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Level set method; Moving mesh methods; Two phase flows

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE GRID; LEVEL SET METHOD; MOVING MESH METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE TENSION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 34247399472     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10915-006-9119-3     Document Type: Article

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