Theory and experiments on the stagnant cap regime in the motion of spherical surfactant-laden bubbles

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 559, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-44

  Palaparthi, Ravichandra ^a   Papageorgiou, Demetrios T ^b   Maldarelli, Charles ^a  

^a Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico Chemical Hydrodynamics   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NEWTONIAN FLOW; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

KINETIC RATE CONSTANTS; SPHERICAL SURFACTANT-LADEN BUBBLES; STAGNANT CAP REGIME;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ADSORPTION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NEWTONIAN FLOW; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADSORPTION; BUBBLE; BUOYANCY; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLYMER; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACTANT;

EID: 33746352071     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005007019     Document Type: Article

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