Buoyancy-driven coalescence of slightly deformable drops

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 346, Issue , 1997, Pages 117-148

  Rother, Michael A ^a   Zinchenko, Alexander Z ^a   Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a UCB 428   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; ETHERS; GLYCOLS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DIETHYLENE GLYCOLS; ETHYL SALICYLATE;

DROP BREAKUP;

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; DROP;

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; DROPLETS;

EID: 0031224836     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211209700623X     Document Type: Article

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