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A coupling strategy based on anisotropic mesh adaptation for solving two‐fluid flows
Author(s) -
Bui Thi Thu Cuc,
Frey P.,
Maury B.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.2307
Subject(s) - discretization , coupling (piping) , finite element method , interface (matter) , level set (data structures) , level set method , advection , computational fluid dynamics , computer science , polygon mesh , mesh generation , set (abstract data type) , computational science , fluid–structure interaction , mathematical optimization , mathematics , geometry , mechanics , physics , mathematical analysis , mechanical engineering , engineering , parallel computing , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , image segmentation , thermodynamics , programming language
We propose a coupling strategy for solving efficiently bifluid flows based on the Stokes equations. Our approach relies on a level set formulation of the interface‐capturing problem, and involves a finite element discretization for the fluid resolution, the method of characteristics for solving the advection of the interface and the anisotropic mesh adaptation of the computational domain in the vicinity of the interface for better accuracy. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.