Thickness-based adaptive mesh refinement methods for multi-phase flow simulations with thin regions

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 269, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-39

  Chen, Xiaodong ^a   Yang, Vigor ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Digital topology; Multi phase simulation; Thickness based refinement; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZATION; DROP BREAKUP; JETS; MESH GENERATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT METHODS; DIGITAL TOPOLOGY; MESH REFINEMENT; MULTI-PHASE FLOWS; MULTI-PHASE SIMULATION; MULTI-SCALES; MULTIPHASE FLOW SIMULATIONS; THICKNESS-BASED REFINEMENT; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84897464622     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.02.035     Document Type: Article

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