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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.
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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.

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Physalis: a new o(N) method for the numerical simulation of disperse systems: potential flow of spheres

TL;DR: In this article, a local analytic representation valid near the particle and matching it to an external field calculated by a standard finite-difference (or finite-element) method is presented.
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A numerical study of breaking waves

TL;DR: In this article, the Navier-Stokes equations are solved in sufficiently refined grids to capture viscous and capillary effects and a parametric study is conducted to assess the role of surface tension, Reynolds number, density, and viscosity on the breaking process, as well as their role in the vorticity redistribution and energy dissipation.
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: A consistent model for interfacial multiphase fluid flow simulations

TL;DR: A particle redistribution strategy as an extension of the damping technique presented in [3] to smooth the initial transient phase of gravitational multiphase fluid flow simulations is presented.
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A pseudocompressibility method for the numerical simulation of incompressible multifluid flows

TL;DR: This paper presents an explicit characteristics-based, conservative, finite-difference method for the simulation of incompressible multiphase flows that is based on the artificial compressib ...
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Numerical simulation of cone-jet formation in electrohydrodynamic atomization

TL;DR: In this article, a computational fluid dynamic (CFD)-based front tracking/finite volume method has been used to investigate numerically the effect of the secondary electric field source and the ring electrode on the EHDA process.
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Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of a fractional volume of fluid (VOF) has been used to approximate free boundaries in finite-difference numerical simulations, which is shown to be more flexible and efficient than other methods for treating complicated free boundary configurations.
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Numerical Calculation of Time‐Dependent Viscous Incompressible Flow of Fluid with Free Surface

TL;DR: In this paper, a new technique is described for the numerical investigation of the time-dependent flow of an incompressible fluid, the boundary of which is partially confined and partially free The full Navier-Stokes equations are written in finite-difference form, and the solution is accomplished by finite-time step advancement.
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Bubbles, Drops, and Particles

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the applicability of the standard κ-ϵ equations and other turbulence models with respect to their applicability in swirling, recirculating flows.
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Numerical analysis of blood flow in the heart

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended previous work on the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of moving immersed boundaries which interact with the fluid and introduced an improved numerical representation of the δ-function.
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