Influence of surface tension models on the hydrodynamics of wavy laminar falling films in Volume of Fluid-simulations

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-71

  Albert, Christoph ^a   Raach, Henning ^a   Bothe, Dieter ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced CSF; CSS; Parasitic currents; Roll wave vortex structure

Indexed keywords

BALANCED CSF; CONTINUUM SURFACE FORCES; CONTINUUM SURFACE STRESS; CSS; DISCRETIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FALLING FILM; FREE SURFACES; HEIGHT FUNCTIONS; MOVING WAVES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARASITIC CURRENT; REFERENCE FRAME; THREE DIMENSIONS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

HYDRODYNAMICS; SOLITONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VORTEX FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84860511027     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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