Simulation of liquid sloshing in curved-wall containers with arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-452

  Zhou, H ^a   Li, J F ^a   Wang, T S ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ALE method; Curved wall boundary; Finite element method; Fractional step method; Free surface flow; Renew mesh

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

CURVED WALL BOUNDARY; FRACTIONAL STEP METHOD; FREE-SURFACE FLOW;

LIQUID SLOSHING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIQUID SLOSHING;

EID: 44249125296     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1602     Document Type: Article

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