Simplified model for droplet growth in shear flow

AIChE Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 546-548

  Rother, Michael A ^a   Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPLET; FLOW MODELING; SHEAR FLOW;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037326289     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690490225     Document Type: Article

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