An improved height function technique for computing interface curvature from volume fractions

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 33-36, 2009, Pages 2555-2564

  Lopez J ^a   Zanzi, C ^b   Gomez P ^b   Zamora, R ^a   Faura, F ^a   Hernandez J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Height function technique; Interface curvature; Spurious currents; Surface tension; Volume of fluid method

Indexed keywords

3-D PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; CONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; DISCRETIZATION; HEIGHT FUNCTION TECHNIQUE; HEIGHT FUNCTIONS; INTERFACE CURVATURE; INTERFACE CURVATURES; INTERFACE ORIENTATION; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; SPURIOUS CURRENTS; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONS; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

BRIDGE PIERS; CAPILLARITY; CONVOLUTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; TITRATION; WETTING;

VOLUME FRACTION;

EID: 65849412221     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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