A numerical study of three-dimensional bubble merger in the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 336-343

  Li, X L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES; INSTABILITY; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR;

EID: 0029675738     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868789     Document Type: Article

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