Flow and thermal properties in full-zone thermocapillary liquid bridges

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-78

  Davis, D A R ^a   Smith, F T ^b  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); PHASE INTERFACES; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

MARANGONI NUMBER; THERMOCAPILLARY FORCES; THERMOCAPILLARY LIQUID BRIDGES;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); PHASE INTERFACES; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 34548863139     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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