Buoyancy-driven viscous interaction of a rising drop with a smaller trailing drop

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1016-1028

  Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

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EID: 0000110380     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869973     Document Type: Article

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