Effect of viscosity on droplet-droplet collision outcome: Experimental study and numerical comparison

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Gotaas, Cecilie ^a   Havelka, Pavel ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a   Svendsen, Hallvard F ^b   Hase, Matthias ^b   Roth, Norbert ^b   Weigand, Bernhard ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW SEPARATION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

DROPLET-DROPLET COLLISION; STROBOSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; WEBER NUMBER;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW SEPARATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 35748936780     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2781603     Document Type: Article

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