A sharp surface tension modeling method for two-phase incompressible interfacial flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 709-732

  Wang, Zhaoyuan ^a   Tong, Albert Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Level set; Sharp interface; Surface tension; Two phase interfacial flow; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK TESTS; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DYNAMIC TESTS; EULERIAN GRIDS; FINITE-VOLUME FORMULATION; FIXED GRIDS; IMPLEMENTATION ALGORITHMS; INTERFACIAL FLOWS; JUMP CONDITIONS; LEVEL SET; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PRESSURE JUMPS; SHARP INTERFACE; SPURIOUS CURRENTS; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; SURFACE TENSION MODELING; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

FLUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; TESTING;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 78650393316     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2166     Document Type: Article

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