Cusping, capture, and breakup of interacting drops by a curvatureless boundary-integral algorithm

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 391, Issue , 1999, Pages 249-292

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

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE MESH STABILIZATION; BOND NUMBER; DROP INTERACTIONS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 0032631787     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112099005285     Document Type: Article

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