Surface phase separation and flow in a simple model of multicomponent drops and vesicles

Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-19

  Lowengrub, J S ^a   Xu, J J ^a   Voigt, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE TENSION;

EULERIAN ALGORITHM; FLUID-LIKE VESICLE MEMBRANES; IMMERSED INTERFACE METHOD; LAPLACE-YOUNG JUMP CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE CONSTITUTIVE COMPONENTS;

DROPS;

EID: 34249715228     PISSN: 1555256X     EISSN: 15552578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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