Detachment of a coalesced-phase blob from a circular obstacle in a Hele-Shaw cell

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2849-2855

  Basu, S ^a   Kumar, R ^a   Gandhi, K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; CONTACT ANGLE; CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TENSION;

COALESCED PHASE BLOB; HELE SHAW CELL;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 0031214807     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00092-4     Document Type: Article

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