NASA-VOF3D: A three-dimensional computer program for incompressible flows with free surfaces
Abstract
Presented is the NASA-VOF3D three-dimensional, transient, free-surface hydrodynamics program. This three-dimensional extension of NASA-VOF2D will, in principle, permit treatment in full three-dimensional generality of the wide variety of applications that could be treated by NASA-VOF2D only within the two-dimensional idealization. In particular, it, like NASA-VOF2D, is specifically designed to calculate confined flows in a low g environment. The code is presently restricted to cylindrical geometry. The code is based on the fractional volume-of-fluid method and allows multiple free surfaces with surface tension and wall adhesion. It also has a partial cell treatment that allows curved boundaries and internal obstacles. This report provides a brief discussion of the numerical method, a code listing, and some sample problems.
- Publication:
-
NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- July 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987STIN...8810288T
- Keywords:
-
- Computer Programs;
- Free Flow;
- Hydrodynamics;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Three Dimensional Flow;
- Adhesion;
- Aerospace Environments;
- Cylindrical Bodies;
- Fortran;
- Geometry;
- Interfacial Tension;
- Reduced Gravity;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer