A new volume-of-fluid method with a constructed distance function on general structured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3703-3722

  Wang, Zhaoyuan ^a   Yang, Jianming ^a   Stern, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaking waves; CLSVOF; Curvilinear grid; Distance function; Interface normal; Level set; Sharp interface; Structured grid; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES;

BREAKING WAVES; COUPLED LEVEL SET AND VOLUME-OF-FLUID; CURVILINEAR GRIDS; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; INTERFACE NORMAL; LEVEL SET; SHARP INTERFACE; STRUCTURED GRID; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84862776987     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.01.022     Document Type: Article

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