An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5838-5866

  Popinet, Stéphane ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Height Function; Navier Stokes equations; Octree; Parasitic currents; Surface tension; Volume Of Fluid

Indexed keywords

SURFACE TENSION;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; BALANCED FORCES; FLUID INTERFACE; HEIGHT FUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL FLOWS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; OCTREES; PARASITIC CURRENT; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 67649472402     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.04.042     Document Type: Article

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