Two-phase electrohydrodynamic simulations using a volume-of-fluid approach

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1267-1285

  Tomar, G ^a   Gerlach, D ^b   Biswas, G ^a   Alleborn, N ^b   Sharma, A ^a   Durst, F ^b   Welch, S W J ^c   Delgado, A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum method; Electrohydrodynamics; Surface force; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION;

CONTINUUM METHOD; CONTINUUM SURFACE FORCES; ELECTRIC FORCE; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC FLOW; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES; SURFACE FORCES; TWO PHASE; TWO-FLUID; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 36148932243     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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