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Title: A comparative study of interface reconstruction methods for multi-material ALE simulations

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Physics

In this paper we compare the performance of different methods for reconstructing interfaces in multi-material compressible flow simulations. The methods compared are a material-order-dependent Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method, a material-order-independent VOF method based on power diagram partitioning of cells and the Moment-of-Fluid method (MOF). We demonstrate that the MOF method provides the most accurate tracking of interfaces, followed by the VOF method with the right material ordering. The material-order-independent VOF method performs some-what worse than the above two while the solutions with VOF using the wrong material order are considerably worse.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
962307
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-09-01324; LA-UR-09-1324; JCTPAH; TRN: US200920%%132
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Computational Physics; ISSN 0021-9991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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