Modeling advection in geophysical flows with particle level sets

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Samuel, H ^a   Evonuk, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

advection; geophysical flows; interface tracking; level set method; numerical modeling; particle in cell method

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DROP BREAKUP; GEOPHYSICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; INTERFACE TRACKING; LEVEL SET METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELING; PARTICLE-IN-CELL METHOD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVECTION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; GEODYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77956077457     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003081     Document Type: Article

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