A paraboloid fitting technique for calculating curvature from piecewise-linear interface reconstructions on 3D unstructured meshes
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Publication:2203142
DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2018.09.009zbMATH Open1442.65021arXiv1712.05467OpenAlexW2963781865WikidataQ129184034 ScholiaQ129184034MaRDI QIDQ2203142FDOQ2203142
Authors: Z. Jibben, Neil N. Carlson, Marianne Francois 
Publication date: 5 October 2020
Published in: Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We present a novel method for calculating interface curvature on 3D unstructured meshes from piecewise-linear interface reconstructions typically generated in the volume of fluid method. Interface curvature is a necessary quantity to calculate in order to model surface tension driven flow. Curvature needs only to be computed in cells containing an interface. The approach requires a stencil containing only neighbors sharing a node with a target cell, and calculates curvature from a least-squares paraboloid fit to the interface reconstructions. This involves solving a 6x6 symmetric linear system in each mixed cell. We present verification tests where we calculate the curvature of a sphere, an ellipsoid, and a sinusoid in a 3D domain on regular Cartesian meshes, distorted hex meshes, and tetrahedral meshes. For both regular and unstructured meshes, we find in all cases the paraboloid fitting method for curvature to converge between first and second order with grid refinement.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05467
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