A balanced-force control volume finite element method for interfacial flows with surface tension using adaptive anisotropic unstructured meshes
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 96661352
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.08.005
- Title of journal
- Computers and Fluids
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- First page
- 38
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0045-7930
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.08.005
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first paper to formulate a balanced-force algorithm for the continuum surface tension model in three-dimensional two-phase flows for fully unstructured adaptive meshes. This has been implemented in the open-source code Fluidity (http://multifluids.github.io/), which can modify unstructured meshes to better represent the underlying physics of interfacial problems and reduce computational effort without sacrificing accuracy. This has led to additional funding such as EPSRC programme grant £6.5M (EP/T000414/1) and EPSRC grand challenge £2.8M grant (EP/T003189/1) and close collaboration with BP for multiphase flow research (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/hybrid-machine-learning-and-computational-fluid-dynamics-methods-in-the-energy-industry/?p110805).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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