Stretching distributions in chaotic mixing of droplet dispersions with unequal viscosities

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Florek, Charles A ^a,b   Tucker III, Charles L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DROP FORMATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OSCILLATIONS; STRETCHING; SURFACE TENSION;

CHAOTIC FLOWS; DROPLET DISPERSION; MATRIX FLUID; OSCILLATORY MOTION;

DISPERSIONS;

MIXING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 20444368811     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1895798     Document Type: Article

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