Elimination of the Bad Volume

A finite volume is considered bad, if:

•	the volume is negative, or less than a minimum volume

•	the mass or the energy of the volume is negative

For both cases, the bad volume is merged with its neighbors. This merge is iterative as the neighbors could also be a bad volume.

To determine the minimum volume, two approaches are used:

1.	The mean volume, of all the active volume is calculated and a first minimum volume is a fraction of this one:

Where, Cgmerg is the "Factor for global merging” defined by you.

The flag Igmerg determines if the mean volume to use is the current mean volume (Igmerg =1) or the initial mean volume calculated at the first cycle.

2.	The mean volume, of all the neighbors of the current one is calculated. A second minimum volume is a fraction of the previous one:

Where, Cnmerg is the “Factor for neighborhood merging” defined by you.

Finally, the volume minimum used is: