A robust, fully adaptive hybrid level-set/front-tracking method for two-phase flows with an accurate surface tension computation

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-94

  Ceniceros, Hector D ^a   Roma, Alexandre M ^b   Silveira Neto, Aristeu ^c   Villar, Millena M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinements; Closest point transform; Front tracking; Immersed boundary method; Level set method; Multilevel multigrid; Semi backward difference formula; Semi implicit methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950177924     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.050509.141009a     Document Type: Article

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