Hello

I want to track the front of gaseous detonation by level set method.

What is the necessity of reinitialization in level set method? why do I use this tecnique?

Is it just for brevity in equations? In other word, is it just for omitting [grad(phi)] in equations? Is it realy necessary?

regards.

due to numerical diffusion during advection of level set field, it will be smeared and so will not be at its actual position. job of reinit is to correct this problem.

since u deal with compressible, u may not diretly figure out this effect (it mainly show itself by mass loss in incompressible ones), but its results should be unphysical.

note that there r some variational based level set method which do not need reinit

@Amir

You see, Level Set(LS) function is defined as signed normal distance function (very smooth function) . This is the most important feature of Level set methods used for incompressible/compressible fluid flows.

In course of time, due to front propagation in a particular direction, the LS function field does not remain signed normal distance function field. When this thing happens, the gradient terms calculation becomes inaccurate. Furthermore, this effect also leads to inaccurate calculation of smeared fluid properties (in case of incompressible flows).

The purpose of Reinitialization thus is to 'Repair/RESET' the LS function calculated from advection step to signed normal distance function WITHOUT moving the interface obtained from advection step i.e. phi = 0 contour before and after reinitialization MUST coincide.

Hope this means that in general you need to reinitialize the LS function periodically but not necessarily after every time step.

Hello

thanks a lot for you concern.

Does modeling compressible flow without reinitialization always, show itself by unphysical results?

Is there any specific effect?

regards.

Hello

I have several questions about level set metohd.

May I have your e-mail?

My e-mail is a_mansouri@modares.ac.ir

or amiir2920@yahoo.com

thanks.

Hello

excuse me!

My e-mail is: a_mansouri@modares.ac.ir

or amir2920@yahoo.com

note that i do not know what happen, i just guess!

simple way is to test, with and without reinit.

if u have implementation problem, you can refer to available open sources in this regard, e.g.,

http://www.princeton.edu/~ktchu/software/lsmlib/

http://barissumengen.com/level_set_methods/

sorry, i do not more help, in particular by email