Evaluating the performance of the two-phase flow solver interFoam

Computational Science and Discovery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Deshpande, Suraj S ^a   Anumolu, Lakshman ^a   Trujillo, Mario F ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ LIBRARIES; DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS; FLOW RESEARCHES; LARGE DENSITY RATIO; NUMERICAL SMEARING; OPEN SOURCES; OPENFOAM; SOLVER PERFORMANCE; SPURIOUS CURRENTS; VALIDATION TEST; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; VERIFICATION TESTS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; WEBER NUMBERS;

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 84870321465     PISSN: 17494680     EISSN: 17494699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1749-4699/5/1/014016     Document Type: Article

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