Suppression of coalescence by shear and temperature gradients

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-28

  Dell'Aversana, Pasquale ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^b   Koplik, Joel ^c  

^a MARS srl   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029673466     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868811     Document Type: Article

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