An embedded boundary method for soluble surfactants with interface tracking for two-phase flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 256, Issue , 2014, Pages 768-790

  Khatri, Shilpa ^a,c   Tornberg, Anna Karin ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded boundary method; Interface tracking; Marangoni forces; Soluble surfactants; Strang splitting; Two phase flows

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

DROP DYNAMICS; EMBEDDED BOUNDARY METHODS; INTERFACE TRACKING; MARANGONI FORCE; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; REGULAR GRIDS; SECOND-ORDER METHODS; SOLUBLE SURFACTANTS; STRANG SPLITTING; TWO PHASES FLOW;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84885194650     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.09.019     Document Type: Article

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