Three-dimensional, fully adaptive simulations of phase-field fluid models

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 6135-6155

  Ceniceros, Hector D ^a   Nós, Rudimar L ^b   Roma, Alexandre M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinements; Bharmonic equation; Conservative phase field models; Flow induced drop coalescence; Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Model H; Multi level multigrid; Semi implicit methods

Indexed keywords

DROPS; MESH GENERATION; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; BHARMONIC EQUATION; CONSERVATIVE PHASE-FIELD MODEL; DROP COALESCENCE; FLOW INDUCED; FLOW-INDUCED DROP COALESCENCE; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; MODEL H; MULTI-LEVEL MULTIGRID; MULTIGRIDS; MULTILEVELS; PHASE FIELD MODELS; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 77953616104     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.045     Document Type: Article

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