On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Santan William <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. It works well.
> I have one more question.
> I read the manual and find that for this example, phi is 0 for liquid, 1 for
> solid. So, does phi=0.5 represent the solid-liquid  interface?

Not really. Physically, the solid-liquid interface has a finite
thickness so any given level set  is not representative. Often
arbitrary limits are set to measure the depth of the interface,
perhaps 0.1 and 0.9 though I don't know off hand of the physical
arguments for setting these limits.

> What is the phase field value phi in the interface thickness?

Not sure what you mean. If you are asking "What's the value of the
phase field is in the diffuse interface?", then the answer is that the
value is anything between 0 or 1, or between any arbitrary cut off
values one wishes to define.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

-- 
Daniel Wheeler


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