A Quadratic Spline based Interface (QUASI) reconstruction algorithm for accurate tracking of two-phase flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9107-9130

  Diwakar, S V ^a   Das, Sarit K ^a   Sundararajan, T ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Curvature effects; Interface reconstruction; Multiphase; Quadratic spline; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

'CURRENT; CURVATURE EFFECT; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFACE SHAPE; MULTIPHASES; PARABOLIC CURVE; QUADRATIC SPLINE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; STANDARD TESTS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 70350012267     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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