A Coupled Level Set and Volume-of-Fluid Method for Computing 3D and Axisymmetric Incompressible Two-Phase Flows

2000/08/01 by Mark Sussman, Elbridge Gerry Puckett · 1,732 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Algorithm #Artificial intelligence #Boundary (topology) #Bubble #Compressibility #Computation #Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques #Computer science #Ellipse #Flow (mathematics) #Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Geometry #Incompressible flow #Level set (data structures) #Level set method #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Physics #Rotational symmetry #Set (abstract data type) #Thermodynamics #Volume (thermodynamics) #Volume of fluid method

paper · doi:10.1006/jcph.2000.6537

published in Journal of Computational Physics 162(2), 301-337 (Elsevier BV)

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