Accurate contact angle boundary conditions for the Cahn-Hilliard equations

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 178-186

  Lee, Hyun Geun ^a   Kim, Junseok ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Contact angle; Nonlinear multigrid method; Unconditionally gradient stable scheme

Indexed keywords

ANGLE BOUNDARIES; CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; MASS CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID METHOD; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SOLID SURFACE; TOTAL ENERGY; TWO-PHASE INTERFACES; UNCONDITIONALLY GRADIENT STABLE SCHEME;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CONTACT ANGLE;

EID: 79952622605     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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