Thermocapillary motion of deformable drops at finite Reynolds and Marangoni numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 845-855

  Haj Hariri, H ^a   Shi, Q ^a   Borhan, A ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES; MARANGONI EFFECT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL;

EID: 0030812521     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869182     Document Type: Article

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