Simulation of primary atomization with an octree adaptive mesh refinement and VOF method

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 550-565

  Fuster, Daniel ^a,b   Bagué, Anne ^a,b   Boeck, Thomas ^c   Le Moyne, Luis ^a,b   Leboissetier, Anthony ^d   Popinet, Stéphane ^e   Ray, Pascal ^a,b   Scardovelli, Ruben ^f   Zaleski, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atomization; Gerris; Kelvin Helmholtz; Numerical simulation; Two phase mixing layer; VOF

Indexed keywords

GERRIS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TWO-PHASE MIXING LAYER; VOF;

ATOMIZATION; JETS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 67349132412     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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