Thermocapillary motion of droplets at large Marangoni numbers

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2101-2106

  Gao, P ^a   Yin, Z ^a   Hu, W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Front tracking method; Thermocapillary migration of drops; Zero gravity

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE RESEARCH; ZERO GRAVITY CASTING;

DROP INTERFACE; MARANGONI NUMBERS; THERMOCAPILLARY MIGRATION OF DROPS; ZERO GRAVITY;

DROPS;

EID: 43049177784     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.06.031     Document Type: Article

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