Analysis of the drop weight method

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Yildirim, Ozgur E ^a   Xu, Qi ^a   Basaran, Osman A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

BOND NUMBERS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; DROP WEIGHT METHOD; TATE'S LAW;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

WEIGHT CONTROL;

EID: 21244464700     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1938227     Document Type: Article

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