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Square drop oscillation under surface tension – 2D axi-symmetric model

Muriel CARIN, universite de bretagne sud, France

This model is concerned with the simulation of incompressible Newtonian fluid flow problems with surface tension. An initially cubic drop of water is oscillating under surface tension forces. This model is developed for a 2D axi-symmetric transient analysis. The movement and deformation of the computational domain are accounted for by employing the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) description of the fluid kinematics.
The implementation of the model is detailled step by step in the pdf file. To visualize the solution, you need to solve the model (click the solve button).

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haoda pan
Jan 19, 2012 at 1:52pm UTC

Cool, your module make me begin to like comsol.

Krithika Mohan
Jan 11, 2012 at 10:32pm UTC

Hi this is a nice work ! Could you PS post the working 4.1+4.2 version.

susant patra
Apr 9, 2010 at 9:25pm UTC

Hi,

I followed the method defined in the paper but the solution did not converge. I am using 3.5 version. Unfortunately I could not open the comsol file as it is created by a later version may be 3.5a? Is it possible to save the file in older version?

chuangxin zhao
Dec 10, 2010 at 12:45pm UTC

it is a nice work, do you have version 4.0a?

Jerry Lucas
Nov 21, 2011 at 10:10am UTC

Hi Øistein Wind-Willassen,

could you send the model for the version 4.2?

Thanks!!

Zuosheng lei
Mar 24, 2011 at 5:10pm UTC

It is really a wonderful work.

would you pls to give some detail on the weakform boundary condition?

why it is this form:

-nu_surf*r*uTr_test-nu_surf*u_test

By the way, if there is a wetting condition on the right point, how to deal with?

Thanks a lot!

Øistein Wind-Willassen
Apr 12, 2011 at 7:31am UTC

The boundary condition form is due to the fact that a cylindrical coordinate system is used. Had a cartesian coordinate system been used, the expressions would have been:

-nu_surf * test(uTx)
-nu_surf * test(vTy)

Hope it helps.

Rajan Iyer
Apr 20, 2011 at 5:30pm UTC

Nice work, as someone else has requested is there a verson 4.0 or later?

sebastien rouquette
May 19, 2011 at 2:06pm UTC

excellent

Øistein Wind-Willassen
Jun 17, 2011 at 4:03pm UTC

I have a version for 4.1+4.2 working, but it comes without the pdf introduction.

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