Revisit to the THINC scheme: A simple algebraic VOF algorithm

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 7086-7092

  Xiao, Feng ^a,b   Ii, Satoshi ^c   Chen, Chungang ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free interface; Hyperbolic tangent function; Interface capturing tracking; Multi dimensional calculation; Multi phase flows; VOF

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

FREE INTERFACE; HYPERBOLIC TANGENT FUNCTION; INTERFACE CAPTURING SCHEME; INTERFACE CAPTURING/TRACKING; INTERFACE-CAPTURING; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATION; MULTI-PHASE FLOWS; TANGENT OF HYPERBOLA FOR INTERFACE CAPTURING; VOF;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79960841701     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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