An efficient numerical method for studying interfacial motion in two-dimensional creeping flows
An efficient numerical method for studying interfacial motion in two-dimensional creeping flows
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研究二维蠕动流界面运动的有效数值方法
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2001
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M. Kropinski
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M. Kropinski
We present new methods for computing the motion of two-dimensional closed interfaces in a slow viscous flow. The interfacial velocity is found through the solution to an integral equation whose analytic formulation is based on complex-variable theory for the biharmonic equation. The numerical methods for solving the integral equations are spectrally accurate and employ a fast multipole-based iterative solution procedure, which requires only O(N) operations where N is the number of nodes in the discretization of the interface. The interface is described spectrally, and we use evolution equations that preserve equal spacing in arclength of the marker points. A small-scale decomposition is performed to extract the dominant term in the evolution of the interface, and we show that this dominant term leads to a CFL-type stability constraint. When in an equal arclength frame, this term is linear and we show that implicit time-integration schemes that are explicit in Fourier space can be formulated. We verify this analysis through several numerical examples.