The coalescence cascade of a drop

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1265-1267

  Thoroddsen, S T ^a   Takehara, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE; COALESCENCE; DROPLET; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034043536     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870380     Document Type: Article

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