Effects of heat source arrangements on Marangoni convection in electrostatically levitated droplets

Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 355-362

  Song, S P ^a,b   Dailey, P ^a   Li, B Q ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION; HEAT SOURCES; MARANGONI CONVECTION; WEIGHTED RESIDUALS METHOD;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0034224930     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6552     Document Type: Article

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