A novel coupled level set and volume of fluid method for sharp interface capturing on 3D tetrahedral grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2573-2604

  Lv, Xin ^a   Zou, Qingping ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b   Reeve, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Free surface; Level set; Tetrahedral grid; VOF

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SET THEORY; VOLUME FRACTION;

FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; FREE SURFACES; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; NORMALIZED VARIABLE DIAGRAM; SHARP INTERFACE; TETRAHEDRAL GRIDS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

ADVECTION;

EID: 74449089601     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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