Modeling merging and breakup in the moving mesh interface tracking method for multiphase flow simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2660-2675

  Quan, Shaoping ^a   Lou, Jing ^a   Schmidt, David P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakup; Coalescence; Mesh adaptation; Mesh combination; Mesh separation; Moving mesh interface tracking; Multiphase flows; Tetrahedral mesh

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; MESH GENERATION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

BREAKUP; INTERFACE TRACKING; INTERFACE TRACKING METHOD; MESH ADAPTATION; MESH COMBINATION; MESH SEPARATION; MOVING MESH; MOVING MESH INTERFACE TRACKING; SCHMIDT; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES;

MERGING;

EID: 60149090180     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.12.029     Document Type: Article

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