The PLIC/SN method that combines the second-order volume tracking method (PLIC-VOF) with the equation of surface normal (SN) vector was recently proposed (M. Sun, “Volume Tracking of Subgrid Particles,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 66, No. 12, 2011, pp. 1530-1554). The method is able to track the motion of a subgrid particle, but the accuracy is not as good as exp...

We study the clustering properties of advected, noninteracting, passive scalar particles in a Burgers fluid with noise, a problem which maps to that of passive sliding particles moving under gravity on a surface evolving through the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. Numerical simulations show that both the density-density correlation function and the single-site mass distribution scale with system ...

We present a fourth-order accurate algorithm for solving Poisson’s equation, the heat equation, and the advection-diffusion equation on a hierarchy of block-structured, adaptively refined grids. For spatial discretization, finite-volume stencils are derived for the divergence operator and Laplacian operator in the context of structured adaptive mesh refinement and a variety of boundary conditio...

We apply the level-set methodology to compute multivalued solutions of the paraxial eikonal equation in both isotropic and anisotropic metrics. This paraxial equation is obtained from 2D stationary eikonal equations by using one of the spatial directions as the artificial evolution direction. The advection velocity field used to move level sets is obtained by the method of characteristics; ther...