Numerical simulation of drop Marangoni migration under microgravity

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 325-335

  Wang, Yanxing ^a   Lu, Xiyun ^a,b   Zhuang, Lixian ^a   Tang, Zemei ^b   Hu, Wenrui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; VORTEX FLOW;

TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THERMOCAPILLARY EFFECTS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 0346334011     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(03)00158-9     Document Type: Article

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