Efficient and accurate time adaptive multigrid simulations of droplet spreading

• Published in: International journal for numerical methods in fluids Vol. 45; no. 11; pp. 1161 - 1186
• Main Authors: Gaskell, P. H., Jimack, P. K., Sellier, M., Thompson, H. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 20.08.2004; Wiley
• Subjects: adaptive time-stepping; Computational methods in fluid dynamics; droplets; Drops and bubbles; Exact sciences and technology; Fluid dynamics; fully implicit; Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications); lubrication approximation; multigrid; Nonhomogeneous flows; Physics; spreading; Algorithms; Three dimensional flow; Computational fluid dynamics; Multigrid; Spreading; Digital simulation; Drops; Adaptive method

An efficient full approximation storage (FAS) Multigrid algorithm is used to solve a range of droplet spreading flows modelled as a coupled set of non‐linear lubrication equations. The algorithm is fully implicit and has embedded within it an adaptive time‐stepping scheme that enables the same to be...