The initialisation of volume fractions for unstructured grids using implicit surface definitions.

DOI10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.10.021zbMath1411.76088OpenAlexW2898466103WikidataQ129006667 ScholiaQ129006667MaRDI QIDQ1739686

Niran A. Ilangakoon, Bevan W. S. Jones, Arnaud G. Malan

Publication date: 26 April 2019

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.10.021

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationunstructured gridsvolume of fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08)

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Uses Software

• Gerris
• BRENT
• Vofi

Cites Work

• Fully multidimensional flux-corrected transport algorithms for fluids
• An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows
• Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries
• Numerical integration of implicit functions for the initialization of the VOF function
• A second order coupled level set and volume-of-fluid method for computing growth and collapse of vapor bubbles.
• Exact calculation of the overlap volume of spheres and mesh elements
• Numerical Models of Surface Tension
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