Journal article
A small-scale decomposition for 3D boundary integral computations with surface tension
Journal of computational physics, v 247, pp 168-191
15 Aug 2013
Abstract
An efficient, non-stiff boundary integral method for the initial value problem for interfacial Darcy flow (which is a model of porous media flow) in three space dimensions is presented. We consider a ‘doubly-periodic’ interface separating two fluids, with surface tension present at the boundary. Surface tension introduces high order (i.e., high derivative) terms in the governing equation, and this imposes a severe stability constraint on explicit time-integration methods. Furthermore, the high order terms appear in a nonlocal operator, which makes it difficult to design an efficient implicit method. The stiffness is removed by developing a small-scale decomposition in the spirit of prior work in the two-dimensional problem by Hou, Lowengrub, and Shelley. In order to develop this small-scale decomposition, we formulate the problem using a generalized isothermal parameterization of the free surface. An additional difficulty is the efficient calculation of the Birkhoff–Rott integral for the velocity of the interface. We present a new algorithm, based on Ewald summation, to compute this in O(NlogN) operations, where N is the number of interface grid points. Our non-stiff method is expected to apply widely to problems for doubly-periodic interfacial flow with surface tension which have a boundary integral formulation.
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- Title
- A small-scale decomposition for 3D boundary integral computations with surface tension
- Creators
- David M. Ambrose - Drexel UniversityMichael Siegel - New Jersey Institute of TechnologySvetlana Tlupova - University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- Publication Details
- Journal of computational physics, v 247, pp 168-191
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000320605100010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84877834220
- Other Identifier
- 991019168496004721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Physics, Mathematical