A volume-of-fluid method for incompressible free surface flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1331-1362

  Park, I R ^a   Kim, K S ^a   Kim, J ^a   Van, S H ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

finite volume method; Level set distancing; Navier Stokes equations; Numerical methods; Two phase flow; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION ALGORITHMS; AIR BUBBLES; BOUNDEDNESS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DAM-BREAKS; DIFFERENCING SCHEME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE SURFACES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SCHEME; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FREE SURFACE FLOWS; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SETS; MASS CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ORDER OF ACCURACY; OTHER INTERFACES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL APPLICATIONS; VISCOUS LIQUIDS; VOF METHOD; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHMS; DAMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUIDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 70349768898     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2000     Document Type: Article

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