A diffuse-interface approach for modeling transport, diffusion and adsorption/desorption of material quantities on a deformable interface

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1009-1037

  Teigen, Knut Erik ^a   Li, Xiangrong ^b   lowengrub, John ^b   Wang, Fan ^b   Voigt, Axel ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptivegrid; Adsorption; Complex geometry; Desorption; Diffuse interface; Finite diffrence; Interfacial dynamics; Multigrid; Multiphase; Partial diffential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953939478     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/cms.2009.v7.n4.a10     Document Type: Article

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