Computing three-dimensional two-phase flows with a mass-conserving level set method

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4-6, 2008, Pages 221-235

  Van Der Pijl, S P ^a   Segal, A ^b   Vuik, C ^b   Wesseling, P ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE INTERFACES; SET THEORY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; BREAK-UP; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERFACE DYNAMICS; LEVEL SET (LS); LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD (LSM); MASS CONSERVATION; RE INITIALIZATION; TEST CASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TWO-PHASE FLOW (2PF); VOLUME OF FLUID (VOF) METHODS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID (VOF);

LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 47949131977     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00791-008-0106-0     Document Type: Article

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