Adaptive unstructured volume remeshing. II: Application to two- and three-dimensional level-set simulations of multiphase flow

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.024zbMath1075.65120OpenAlexW1980440487MaRDI QIDQ2485705

Xiaoming Zheng, Anthony Anderson, Vittorio Cristini, John S. Lowengrub

Publication date: 5 August 2005

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.024

zbMATH Keywords

numerical resultsboundary-integral methodsmultiphase flowsadaptive remeshing algorithmfinite-element/level-setfluid-fluid interface interactionsunstructured tetrahedraunstructured triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Three or more component flows (76T30) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50)

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Uses Software

• PROST

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