Volume of fluid method

<p>In <a href="/facts/Computational_fluid_dynamics/zuWdtNJp">computational fluid dynamics</a>, the volume of fluid (VOF) method is a family of <a href="/facts/Free-surface_modelling/xB5bwhV3">free-surface modelling</a> techniques, i.e. <a href="/facts/Numerical_method/MrQIMSIY">numerical techniques</a> for tracking and locating the <a href="/facts/Free_surface/NB0yMSxH">free surface</a> (or <a href="/facts/Fluid_interface/HnIAndVA">fluid–fluid interface</a>). They belong to the class of Eulerian methods which are characterized by a <a href="/facts/Polygon_mesh/6WLD80ER">mesh</a> that is either stationary or is moving in a certain prescribed manner to accommodate the evolving shape of the interface. As such, VOF methods are advection schemes capturing the shape and position of the interface, but are not standalone flow solving algorithms. The <a href="/facts/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations/48pQugEa">Navier–Stokes equations</a> describing the motion of the flow have to be solved separately.
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Volume of fluid method