TY  - EJOU
AU  - Sussman, Mark  
AU  - Ohta, Mitsuhiro  

TI  - Improvements for calculating two-phase bubble and drop motion using an adaptive sharp interface method.
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2007
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - In this paper, we describe new techniques for numerically approximating two-phase flows. Specifically, we present new techniques for treating the viscosity and surface tension terms that appear in the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible two-phase flow. Our resulting numerical method has the property that results computed using our two-phase algorithm approach the corresponding "one-phase'' algorithm in the limit of zero gas density/viscosity; i.e. the two-phase results approach the one-phase free-boundary results in the limit that the gas is assumed to become a uniform pressure void. By grid convergence checks and comparison with previous experimental data, we shall demonstrate the advantages of our new proposed discretizations.
KW  - volume-of-fluid method
KW  -  sharp interface
KW  -  multiphase flow
KW  -  surface tension
KW  -  viscosity

DO  - 10.3970/fdmp.2007.003.021