Numerical simulation of bubble and droplet deformation by a level set approach with surface tension in three dimensions

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 963-993

  Croce, Roberto ^a   Griebel, Michael ^a   Schweitzer, Marc Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Continuum surface force method; Droplet deformation; Incompressible two phase flow; Level set method; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE DEFORMATION; CARTESIANS; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; CONTINUUM SURFACE FORCES; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DROPLET DEFORMATION; FIRST-ORDER; FIXED POINT ITERATION; FREE SURFACES; INCOMPRESSIBLE TWO-PHASE FLOW; INTERFACE CONDITIONS; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SETS; MASS CONSERVATION; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS; REINITIALIZATION; SECOND ORDER CONVERGENCE; SIGNUM FUNCTION; STAGGERED GRID; THIRD-ORDER; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE SPACE DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES; TWO PHASIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TWO-FLUID; VOLUME DISCRETIZATION; WENO SCHEMES;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAPILLARITY; DEFORMATION; DELTA FUNCTIONS; DROP BREAKUP; DROP FORMATION; FLOW SIMULATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 77950127968     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2051     Document Type: Article

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