Anistropy and breakup of extended droplets in immiscible blends

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-48

  Almusallam, Abdulwahab S ^a   Larson, Ronald G ^a   Solomon, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Doi Ohta theory; Polymer blends; Tomotika theory

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRAIN;

IMMISCIBLE BLENDS;

NEWTONIAN FLOW;

DROPLET; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; STRESS;

EID: 0042822127     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(03)00109-5     Document Type: Article

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