Drainage and rupture of a Newtonian film between two power-law liquid drops interacting under a constant force

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 181-201

  Bazhlekov, I B ^a   Van De Vosse, F N ^a   Chesters, A K ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Deformable interfaces; Film drainage; Film rupture; Power law; Shear thinning

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DEFORMABLE INTERFACES; FILM RUPTURE; POWER-LAW LIQUID; SHEAR THINNING;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

COALESCENCE; DROPLET; FILM; NEWTONIAN FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW; POWER LAW FLUID; SHEAR THINNING;

EID: 0034307602     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(00)00119-1     Document Type: Article

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