Spontaneous shrinkage of drops and mass conservation in phase-field simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Yue, Pengtao ^a   Zhou, Chunfeng ^a   Feng, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical radius; Diffuse interface method; Drop deformation; Drop shrinkage; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

DROPS; SHRINKAGE;

CRITICAL RADIUS; DIFFUSE INTERFACE; DIFFUSE-INTERFACE METHOD; DROP DEFORMATION; DROP SHRINKAGE; IN-PHASE; MASS CONSERVATION; PHASE FIELD MODELS; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION; TWO PHASES FLOW;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33947139226     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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