A Level Set Approach for Computing Solutions to Incompressible Two-Phase Flow

1994/09/01 by Mark Sussman, Peter Smereka, Stanley Osher · 4,759 citations
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Mathematics · #Algorithm #Applied mathematics #Aquatic and Environmental Studies #Compressibility #Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques #Computer science #Flow (mathematics) #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Function (biology) #Geometry #Incompressible flow #Level set (data structures) #Level set method #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Physics #Projection (relational algebra) #Set (abstract data type) #Thermodynamics #Two-phase flow #Viscosity

paper · doi:10.1006/jcph.1994.1155

published in Journal of Computational Physics 114(1), 146-159 (Elsevier BV)

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