Numerical prediction of interfacial instabilities: Sharp interface method (SIM)

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3940-3970

  Nourgaliev, R R ^a   Liou, M S ^b   Theofanous, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas liquid interfaces; Instability seeding in numerical simulations; Interfacial flows; Interfacial instability; Rayleigh Taylor instability; Sharp interface treatment; Viscous Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Yih instability

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SHEAR FLOW; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

GAS/LIQUID INTERFACE; INSTABILITY-SEEDING IN NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INTERFACIAL FLOWS; INTERFACIAL INSTABILITY; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; SHARP INTERFACE; SHARP-INTERFACE TREATMENT; VISCOUS KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; YIH INSTABILITY;

STABILITY;

EID: 40249092838     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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