The level-set method applied to droplet dynamics in the presence of an electric field

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 358-369

  Bjørklund, Erik ^a  

^a Vetco Aibel AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISCONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS; DROPLET BREAKUPS; DROPLET DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOWS; SURFACE FORCES;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 55949131448     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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