A front-tracking method for viscous, incompressible, multi-fluid flows
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In this paper, a method to simulate unsteady multi-fluid flows in which a sharp interface or a front separates incompressible fluids of different density and viscosity is described.About:
This article is published in Journal of Computational Physics.The article was published on 1992-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2340 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Incompressible flow & Unstructured grid.read more
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Volume tracking of interfaces having surface tension in two and three dimensions
TL;DR: The theory of volume tracking methods, derive appropriate volume evolution equations, identify and present solutions to the basic geometric functions needed for interface reconstruction and volume fluxing, and provide detailed algorithm templates for modern 2-D and 3-D PLIC VOF interface tracking methods.
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A mass‐conserving Level‐Set method for modelling of multi‐phase flows
TL;DR: In this article, a mass-conserving Level-Set method to model bubbly flows is presented, which can handle high density-ratio flows with complex interface topologies, such as flows with simultaneous occurrence of bubbles and droplets.
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A coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method for computing incompressible two-phase flows
Dongliang Sun,Wen-Quan Tao +1 more
TL;DR: A coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method, which combines the advantages and overcomes the disadvantages of VOF and LS methods, is presented for computing incompressible two-phase flows.
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Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces
TL;DR: In this paper, a new method for the animation and rendering of photo-realistic water effects is presented, which is designed to produce visually plausible three dimensional effects, for example the pouring of...
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Multiphase Dynamics in Arbitrary Geometries on Fixed Cartesian Grids
TL;DR: In this article, a mixed Eulerian?Lagrangian algorithm, called ELAFINT (Eulerian Lagrangians algorithm for interface tracking) is developed further and applied to compute flows with solid and fluid interfaces.
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Numerical analysis of blood flow in the heart
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