Coalescence in a surfactant-less emulsion under simple shear flow

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 885-894

  Nandi, Arup ^a,b   Mehra, Anurag ^a   Khakhar, D V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b General Electric Company India   (India)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Drop size distribution; Emulsion; Population balance; Shear flow; Smoluchowski

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; ELECTROLYTES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION BALANCE; SMOLUCHOWSKI; SURFACTANT-LESS EMULSIONS;

EMULSIONS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; ELECTROLYTES; EMULSIONS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 33645572247     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10682     Document Type: Article

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