Analysis of an extended pressure finite element space for two-phase incompressible flows

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4-6, 2008, Pages 293-305

  Reusken, Arnold ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended finite element space; Spurious velocities; Surface tension; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CAPILLARITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; LIQUIDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMBER THEORY; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SET THEORY; STANDARDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; DISCRETIZATION; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT; EXTENDED-PRESSURE (EP); FINITE ELEMENT SPACES; FLOW PROBLEMS; FLOW VARIABLES; LEVEL SET (LS); LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; MASS MATRICES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL CONDITION NUMBER; STANDARD FINITE ELEMENT; STANDARD MODEL (SM); SURFACE TENSION FORCES; TWO-PHASE FLOW (2PF);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 47849117577     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00791-008-0099-8     Document Type: Article

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