Drop coalescence through planar surfaces

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Aryafar, H ^a   Kavehpour, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

DROP COALESCENCE; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; OHNESORGE NUMBER; SCALING ARGUMENTS; SECONDARY DROP;

DROP FORMATION;

COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 33746729739     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2227435     Document Type: Article

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