Research on lateral instability of the uniform-charged droplet stream during droplet-based freeform fabrication

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 289-294

  Luo, Jun ^a   Qi, Le Hua ^a,b   Jiang, Xiao Shan ^a   Zhou, Ji Ming ^a   Huang, Hua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Charge; Droplet distribution; Freeform fabrication; Uniform droplet stream

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DROPLET DISTRIBUTION; FREEFORM FABRICATION; UNIFORM DROPLET STREAM;

DROPS;

EID: 37549000572     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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