Breakup and capture of two sedimenting drops in a vertical temperature gradient

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAPILLARITY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

SEDIMENTARY DROPS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIOS; THERMOCAPILLARY EFFECTS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; DROPLET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 15844401994     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1856532     Document Type: Article

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