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Convergence of a non-stiff boundary integral method for interfacial flows with surface tension

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Convergence of a non-stiff boundary integral method for interfacial flows with surface tension
Boundary integral methods to simulate interfacial flows are very sensitive to numerical instabilities. In addition, surface tension introduces nonlinear terms with high order spatial derivatives into the interface dynamics. This makes the spatial discretization even more difficult and, at the same time, imposes a severe time step constraint for stable explicit time integration methods. A proof of the convergence of a reformulated boundary integral method for two-density fluid interfaces with surface tension is presented. The method is based on a scheme introduced by Hou, Lowengrub and Shelley [ J. Comp. Phys. 114 (1994), pp. 312–338] to remove the high order stability constraint or stiffness. Some numerical filtering is applied carefully at certain places in the discretization to guarantee stability. The key of the proof is to identify the most singular terms of the method and to show, through energy estimates, that these terms balance one another. The analysis is at a time conti...
Héctor D. Ceniceros, Thomas Y. Hou
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Type Journal
Year 1998
Where MOC
Authors Héctor D. Ceniceros, Thomas Y. Hou
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