A refined volume-of-fluid algorithm for capturing sharp fluid interfaces on arbitrary meshes

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2014.06.043zbMath1351.76198OpenAlexW1982269554MaRDI QIDQ728694

Ying Shi, Zhengbing Chen, Dongfang Liang, Yan Yang, Chun Bo Jiang, Dianzhou Zhang

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245693

zbMATH Keywords

unstructured meshesinterface capturingtwo-phase flowsvolume of fluid (VOF)normalized variable and space formulation (NVSF)normalized variable diagram (NVD)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76Txx)

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Uses Software

• RIPPLE

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