The initialisation of volume fractions for unstructured grids using implicit surface definitions.

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2018.10.021MaRDI QIDQ1739686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bevan W. S. Jones, A. G. Malan, Niran A. Ilangakoon

Publication date 26 April 2019

Published in Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.10.021

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationunstructured gridsvolume of fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10)

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Cited in

(9)

• Numerical integration of implicit functions for the initialization of the VOF function
• Unstructured un-split geometrical volume-of-fluid methods - a review
• A higher-order accurate surface tension modelling volume-of-fluid scheme for 2D curvilinear meshes
• A higher-order accurate VOF interface curvature computation scheme for 3D non-orthogonal structured meshes
• Third-order accurate initialization of volume fractions on unstructured meshes with arbitrary polyhedral cells
• First Moments of a Polyhedron Clipped by a Paraboloid
• triSurfaceImmersion: computing volume fractions and signed distances from triangulated surfaces immersed in unstructured meshes
• An optimized \textsc{Vofi} library to initialize the volume fraction field
• High-order, refinement-based computation of the volume of an arbitrary polyhedron intersected by an implicitly defined fluid body

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Vofi
• BRENT
• Gerris

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