Accurate interface normal and curvature estimates on three-dimensional unstructured non-convex polyhedral meshes

نویسندگان

  • Christopher B. Ivey
  • Parviz Moin
چکیده

The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method is one of the most widely used formulations to simulate interfacial and free-surface flows (Scardovelli & Zaleski 1999). In this method, the interface evolution is implicitly tracked using a discrete function, F , whose value represents the volume fraction of the tagged fluid within a cell of the computational mesh. F is a discretized version of the fluid marker function, f , that is constant in each phase, jumps at the interface from 0 to 1, and follows the scalar convection equation

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comput. Physics

دوره 300  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015