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A two‐phase flow interface capturing finite element method |
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| Authors: | C Devals M Heniche F Bertrand P A Tanguy R E Hayes |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Que., Canada H3C 3A7;2. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2G6 |
| Abstract: | A new interface capturing algorithm is proposed for the finite element simulation of two‐phase flows. It relies on the solution of an advection equation for the interface between the two phases by a streamline upwind Petrov–Galerkin (SUPG) scheme combined with an adaptive mesh refinement procedure and a filtering technique. This method is illustrated in the case of a Rayleigh–Taylor two‐phase flow problem governed by the Stokes equations. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | interface capturing finite element method Stokes equations adaptive meshing filtering technique Rayleigh– Taylor flow |