Numerical simulation of breakup of a viscous drop in simple shear flow through a volume-of-fluid method

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-282

  Li, Jie ^a   Renardy, Yuriko Y ^a   Renardy, Michael ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPLET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PLATES; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOUS FLUID;

EID: 0034077402     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870305     Document Type: Article

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