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Freeflow: an integrated simulation system for three-dimensional free surface flows

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This paper describes an integrated environment for the simulation of 3D viscous incompressible free surface flows. The environment comprises three modules: a geometric modeller module, a simulation module and a visualization module. The simulator employs GENSMAC-3D, a code based initially on the SMAC method, which uses finite difference approximations on staggered grids to solve the Navier-Stokes equations. All geometric objects (fluids, containers and inflows) are represented by a B-Rep data structure, and solid modelling techniques allow 3D multiple colour visualization.

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  1. Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, S.P., Brasil, BR

    A. Castello F. & J.A. Cuminato

  2. Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, PT

    M.F. Tomé

  3. Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, S.P., Brasil, BR

    C.N.L. César

  4. University of Strathclyde, Department of Mathematics, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK, UK

    S. McKee

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  1. A. Castello F.
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Received: 15 April 1998 / Accepted: 9 July 1999

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Castello F., A., Tomé, M., César, C. et al. Freeflow: an integrated simulation system for three-dimensional free surface flows. Comput Visual Sci 2, 199–210 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007910050040

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