Modelling of Non-coalescing Liquid Drops in the Presence of Thermocapillary Convection

Meccanica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-133

  Savino, Raffaele ^a   Monti, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluid dynamics; Free boundary problems; Navier Stokes equations; Numerical simulation; Two phase convection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACES; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

GAUSS-LAPLACE HYDROSTATIC EQUATION; NON COALESCING LIQUID DROPS; THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION; TWO PHASE CONVECTION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031117879     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004287930384     Document Type: Article

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