The coalescene of two equal-sized drops in a two-dimensional linear flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1087-1106

  Yang, Hong ^a   Park, C Charles ^a   Hu, Y Thomas ^b   Leal, L Gary ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; SILICONES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

LINEAR FLOWS;

DROP FORMATION;

COALESCENCE; DROPLET; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0035340624     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1358873     Document Type: Article

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