A numerical study of electrostatic interactions between two charged conducting droplets

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Su, Y H ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROSTATICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; ELECTROSTATICALLY COUPLED CHARGED DROPLETS; LEGENDRE MODES;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROSTATICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

EID: 33745619840     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2195463     Document Type: Article

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