Marker and Cell(MAC)method. The originalMACmethod is an incompressible flow solution technique proposed by Harlow and Welch from 1965 [10]. The highlights of this method include
• use of the staggered grid to avoid spurious oscillation in the pressure field and the accumulation of mass conservation error; and
• use of marker particles to be able to solve for free-surface flows. A dam break example that uses this solution method is shown in Fig. 3.1. While the original MAC method is a fairly complex algorithm, progress has been made to simplify the original formulation with the staggered grid and develop more advanced techniques to analyze free-surface flows. Although the MAC method originally referred to methods that focused on the use of marker particles, it has become
somewhat common to refer to a method that employs staggered grids as a MAC method. Below, we describe methods that are founded on the basic idea behind using the staggered grid. We wi
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