Energy Stable Schemes for Cahn-Hilliard Phase-Field Model of Two-Phase Incompressible Flows

Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 743-758

  Shen, Jie ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard; Energy stable; Navier Stokes; Phase field; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957918242     PISSN: 02529599     EISSN: 18606261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11401-010-0599-y     Document Type: Article

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