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Two schemes that are designed to capture contact surface sharply are examined in this study. The first one is an overset mesh method in which a submesh system moves on the background Cartesian mesh system and follows the contact surface. The other scheme is a fully conservative Eulerian scheme that introduces two inert gases to identify the coexisting region where two gases coexist in a computational cell. The numerical flux function at the boundary of coexisting region is then modified by extrapolation. The computed results for the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability problem indicate that these two schemes can capture contact surface quite sharply and accurately.
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Sawada, K., Ohnishi, N. (2005). Numerical Attempts of Capturing Contact Surface. In: Fujii, K., Nakahashi, K., Obayashi, S., Komurasaki, S. (eds) New Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM), vol 90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31261-7_8
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