A numerical strategy for the direct 3D simulation of the expansion of bubbles into a molten polymer during a foaming process

DOI10.1002/FLD.1660MaRDI QIDQ3514655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Bruchon, Thierry Coupez

Publication date 21 July 2008

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.1660

zbMATH Keywords

bubble expansioncellular structurechange of scaleliquid-gas interactionmesh \(r\)-adaptation techniquevolume of fluid (VOF) method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

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