Efficient simulation of surface tension-dominated flows through enhanced interface geometry interrogation

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.034zbMath1425.76165MaRDI QIDQ2638268

Murray Rudman, Richard Manasseh, Petar Liovic, Marianne M. Francois

Publication date: 15 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.034

zbMATH Keywords

curvature; surface tension; height functions; level-set; volume-of-fluid; elliptic solvers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M12: Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

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Uses Software

• Gerris
• Wesseling

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