Role of inertia in two-dimensional deformation and breakdown of a droplet

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 2, 2003, Pages 453011-453014

  Wagner, A J ^a,b   Wilson, L M ^b   Cates, M E ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CAPILLARY NUMBER; INERTIA EFFECTS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD (LBM);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREE ENERGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 0346305005     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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