Interfacial deformation of liquid drops by electric fields at zero gravity

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 67-82

  Abdella, K ^a   Rasmussen, H ^a   Inculet, I I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drops in electric fields; Viscous free surface problems; Zero gravity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

VISCOUS FREE SURFACE PROBLEMS; ZERO GRAVITY;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 0030147827     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0898-1221(96)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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