An extended pressure finite element space for two-phase incompressible flows with surface tension

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-58

  Groß, Sven ^a   Reusken, Arnold ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pressure finite element space; Spurious velocities; Surface tension; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

DISCRETIZATIONS; EXTENDED PRESSURES; FINITE ELEMENT SPACE; LOCALISED; PRESSURE FINITE ELEMENT SPACE; SPURIOUS VELOCITY; STANDARD MODEL; SURFACE TENSION FORCE; TWO PHASE; TWO PHASES FLOW;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 34248211730     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.12.021     Document Type: Article

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