Microconfined equiviscous droplet deformation: Comparison of experimental and numerical results

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Vananroye, Anja ^a   Janssen, Pieter J ^b   Anderson, Patrick D ^b   Van Puyvelde, Peter ^a   Moldenaers, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary integral equations; Drops; Green's function methods; Microchannel flow; Shear flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; CAPILLARY FLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MICROCHANNELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

CRITICAL CAPILLARY NUMBER; FLOW DIRECTION; MICROCHANNEL FLOW; VISCOSITY RATIO;

DROPS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; CAPILLARY FLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; DROPS; FLOW PATTERNS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MICROCHANNELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 38949101384     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2835312     Document Type: Article

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