Effect of inertia on drop breakup under shear

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-13

  Renardy, Yuriko Y ^a   Cristini, Vittorio ^b  

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

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARY STRESS; SURFACE-FORCE ALGORITHMS;

DROP BREAKUP;

DROPLET; INERTIA; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0034746256     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1331321     Document Type: Article

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