A computational method for sharp interface advection

@article{Roenby2016ACM,
  title={A computational method for sharp interface advection},
  author={Johan Roenby and Henrik Bredmose and Hrvoje Jasak},
  journal={Royal Society Open Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={3}
}
We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called isoAdvector, and is developed for general meshes consisting of arbitrary polyhedral cells. The algorithm is based on the volume of fluid (VOF) idea of calculating the volume of one of the fluids transported across the mesh faces during a time step. The novelty of the isoAdvector concept consists of two parts. First, we… 
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