Investigation of liquid-gas interfacial shapes in reduced gravitational environments

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1304-1315

  Yang, An Shik ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Liquid gas interface, reduced gravity; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

GASES; GRAVITATION; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUID SLOSHING; LIQUIDS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TENSION;

GRAVITATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; LIQUID GAS INTERFACE; LOW GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REDUCED GRAVITY; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 54249143920     PISSN: 00207403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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