Dynamics of inertia dominated binary drop collisions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3438-3449

  Roisman, Ilia V ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; JETS; SURFACE TENSION;

BINARY DROP COLLISIONS; LIQUID JETS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

COLLISION; DEFORMATION; DROPLET; INERTIA; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 4544353459     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1777584     Document Type: Article

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