On the calculation of normals in free-surface flow problems

DOI10.1002/cnm.677zbMath1097.76052OpenAlexW2036081460WikidataQ58418603 ScholiaQ58418603MaRDI QIDQ4736789

Jonathan L. Summers, M. C. T. Wilson, Mark A. Walkley, Mark A. Kelmanson, Peter K. Jimack, Philip H. Gaskell

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1738/1/jimackp17_WGJKSW03.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionboundary-conforming finite element methodsmass-consistent normals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

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Uses Software

• Netgen

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