Does drop size affect the mechanism of viscoelastic drop breakup?

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Li, Huaping ^a   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULIC JUMP; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY; VORTICITY;

DROP SIZE; FLOW DIRECTION;

DROP BREAKUP;

DROP BREAKUP; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULIC JUMP; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 44649097678     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2917535     Document Type: Article

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