A direct comparison between volume and surface tracking methods with a boundary-fitted coordinate transformation and third-order upwinding

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1428-1469

  Zacharioudaki, Maria ^a   Kouris, Charalampos ^a   Dimakopoulos, Yannis ^a   Tsamopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Front tracking; Multigrid; Multiphase flow; Upwinding; Volume tracking

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOWER-UPPER DECOMPOSITION; MESH GENERATION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOUNDARY-FITTED COORDINATES; CENTERED FINITE DIFFERENCES; COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; FRONT TRACKING; MESH REFINEMENT; MOMENTUM EQUATION; MULTIGRIDS; REYNOLD NUMBER; UPWINDING; VOLUME TRACKING;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 36148992639     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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