Advecting normal vectors: A new method for calculating interface normals and curvatures when modeling two-phase flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 774-797

  Raessi, M ^a   Mostaghimi, J ^a   Bussmann, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curvature; Free surface flows; Level set; Spurious currents; Surface tension; Two phase flows; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

SURFACE TENSION;

CURVATURE; FLOW INTERFACE; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; LEVEL SET; NORMAL CURVATURE; NORMAL VECTOR; SPURIOUS CURRENTS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TWO PHASES FLOW; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 34548400208     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.04.023     Document Type: Article

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