An extended finite element method applied to levitated droplet problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 757-773

  Esser, Patrick ^a   Grande, Jörg ^a   Reusken, Arnold ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element; Level set method; Spurious velocities; Surface tension; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; DISCRETIZATIONS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT; INTERFACE TENSIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVITATED DROPLET; SPURIOUS VELOCITY; STANDARD MODEL; TWO PHASE FLOW MODEL;

DROP BREAKUP; DROP FORMATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78049297018     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2913     Document Type: Article

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