The migration of a drop in a uniform temperature gradient at large Marangoni numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 733-743

  Balasubramaniam, R ^a   Subramanian, R Shankar ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE; DROPLET; MIGRATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 0039591513     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870330     Document Type: Article

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