A volume-of-fluid interfacial flow solver with advected normals

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1401-1410

  Raessi, Mehdi ^a   Mostaghimi, Javad ^a   Bussmann, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advecting normals; Curvature; Interfacial flow; Level set; Spurious currents; Surface tension; Two phase flow; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

CURVATURE; FLOW PROBLEMS; FLUID INTERFACE; INTERFACE CURVATURES; INTERFACE DEFORMATION; INTERFACE MOVEMENT; INTERFACIAL FLOWS; NEW APPROACHES; NORMAL VECTOR; SPURIOUS CURRENTS; SURFACE TENSION FORCE; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

FLUIDS;

EID: 77953360931     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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