Coalescence, torus formation and breakup of sedimenting drops: Experiments and computer simulations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 447, Issue , 2001, Pages 299-336

  Machu, Gunther ^a   Meile, Walter ^a   Nitsche, Ludwig C ^b   Schaflinger, U W E ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TORUS FORMATION;

VISCOUS FLOW;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DROPLET; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 0035950847     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112001005882     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. The behaviour of a swarm of particles moving in a viscous fluid
2. An experimental investigation of the break-up of a liquid drop falling in a miscible fluid
3. Low-Reynolds-number bubbles in fluidised beds
4. Chaotic advection and relative dispersion in an experimental convective flow
5. Stokesian dynamics
6. Dispersion resulting from flow through spatially periodic porous media
7. Screening mechanisms in sedimentation
8. Mesoscopic simulation of drops in gravitational and shear fields
9. Drop breakup in three-dimensional viscous flows
10. Hydrodynamic diffusion of suspended particles: A symposium
11. Buoyancy-driven viscous interaction of a rising drop with a smaller trailing drop
12. Chaotic mixing in a bounded three-dimensional flow
13. Quasimolecular simulation of large liquid drops
14. Dynamics of a drop at a liquid/solid interface in simple shear fields: A mesoscopic simulation study
15. The stability of drop shapes for translation at zero Reynolds number through quiescent fluid
16. An experimental investigation on the stability of viscous drops translating through a quiescent fluid
17. The formation and expansion of a toroidal drop moving in a viscous fluid
18. Buoyancy-driven interactions of viscous drops with deforming interfaces
19. Waves of bubbles in basaltic magmas and lavas
20. Interactions between mantle diapirs
21. Rheology of bubble-bearing magmas
22. Buoyancy-driven interactions between two deformable viscous drops
23. Interactions between bubbles in magmas and lavas: Effects of bubble deformation
24. Collective hydrodynamics of deformable drops and bubbles in dilute low Reynolds number suspensions
25. The interaction of plume heads with compositional discontinuities in the Earth's mantle
26. Formation, stability and breakup of nanojets
27. Molecular simulation of droplet collision in the presence of ambient gas
28. Break-up of a falling drop containing dispersed particles
29. Eulerian kinematics of flow through spatially periodic models of porous media
30. Mixing, chaotic advection, and turbulence
31. The instability of a moving viscous drop
32. A numerical study of the deformation and burst of a viscous drop in general shear flows
33. Buoyancy-driven coalescence of slightly deformable drops
34. Interfacial phenomena in suspensions
35. Dynamics of drop deformation and breakup in viscous fluids
36. On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena