On stability condition for bifluid flows with surface tension: Application to microfluidics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6140-6164

  Galusinski, Cédric ^a   Vigneaux, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Bifluid flows; Cartesian finite volumes; Curvature; Droplets; Incompressible Navier Stokes; Level set; Microfluidics; Stability condition; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

MICROFLUIDICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

BIFLUID FLOW; CAPILLARY WAVE; CARTESIAN FINITE-VOLUME; CARTESIANS; CURVATURE; FINITE-VOLUME; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; LEVEL SET; STABILITY CONDITION; TIME STEP;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 43049156409     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.02.023     Document Type: Article

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