Numerical simulation of 3D bubbles rising in viscous liquids using a front tracking method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3358-3382

  Hua, Jinsong ^a   Stene, Jan F ^b   Lin, Ping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Bubble rising; Computational fluid dynamics; Front tracking method; Incompressible flow; Moving reference frame; Multiphase flow; SIMPLE algorithm

Indexed keywords

AIR; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; BOND NUMBERS; BUBBLE RISING; FRONT TRACKING METHOD; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; MOVING REFERENCE FRAME; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHOD FOR PRESSURE-LINKED EQUATION ALGORITHM; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHOD FOR PRESSURE-LINKED EQUATIONS; VISCOUS LIQUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 38749083374     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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