An interface capturing method with a continuous function: The THINC method with multi-dimensional reconstruction

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2328-2358

  Ii, Satoshi ^a   Sugiyama, Kazuyasu ^a   Takeuchi, Shintaro ^b   Takagi, Shu ^a,c   Matsumoto, Yoichiro ^a   Xiao, Feng ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous function; Fixed Cartesian mesh; Incompressible immiscible fluids; Interface capturing method; Volume of fluid (VOF)

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BENCHMARKING; DROPS; GEOMETRY; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; OSCILLATING FLOW; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SHEAR FLOW;

CARTESIAN MESH; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; FIXED CARTESIAN MESH; HYPERBOLIC TANGENT FUNCTION; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE IMMISCIBLE FLUID; INTERFACE-CAPTURING METHOD; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84855492612     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.11.038     Document Type: Article

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