A key feature is then the Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) which will be employed on the interface mesh for the numercial treatment of the surfactant-PDE, the calculation of the surface tension and the coupling of the interface-PDE to the bulk equations with significantly different densities. Together with a sharp interface capturing bulk discretization, DEC promises to obtain stability, robustness and improved accuracy for the surfactant equations on the interface, the surface tension calculations and the bulk quantities even close to the interface.
We furthermore will parallelize the new approach for a cluster of GPU compute nodes to obtain a fast simulation tool for (Taylor) bubble problems and droplet breakup in shear driven flows in the presence of surfactants.