On the properties and limitations of the height function method in two-dimensional Cartesian geometry

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 851-862

  Bornia, G ^a   Cervone, A ^a   Manservisi, S ^a   Scardovelli, R ^a   Zaleski, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

Author keywords

Curvature; Height function; Interface reconstruction; Normal vector; Quadratic reconstruction; VOF PLIC method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

CARTESIAN GEOMETRY; CURVATURE; FUNCTION METHODS; HEIGHT FUNCTIONS; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL VECTOR; PROPERTY; QUADRATIC RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VOF/PLIC METHOD;

PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

EID: 78650580477     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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