Physalis method for heterogeneous mixtures of dielectrics and conductors: Accurately simulating one million particles using a PC

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8256-8274

  Liu, Qianlong ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy, efficiency, and convergence rate; Cage; Complex geometry; Discontinuous boundary conditions; Heterogeneous mixtures of dielectrics and conductors; Immersed Boundary Method; O(N) method; One million particles; Physalis method; Second order accuracy; Spectral general analytical solution; Spectral method; Spectrally accurate; Spectrally convergent

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ACCURACY RATE; CAGE; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CONVERGENCE RATES; DISCONTINUOUS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GENERAL ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURE OF DIELECTRIC AND CONDUCTOR; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; O(N) METHOD; ONE MILLION PARTICLE; PHYSALIS METHOD; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SPECTRAL GENERAL ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; SPECTRAL METHODS; SPECTRALLY ACCURATE; SPECTRALLY CONVERGENT;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052671754     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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