The dam-break problem for viscous fluids in the high-capillary-number limit

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 624, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-22

  Ancey, Christophe ^a   Cochard, S ^b   Andreini, N ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DAM-BREAK PROBLEMS; HIGHLY VISCOUS FLUIDS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LUBRICATION THEORY; MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 65649087902     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005041     Document Type: Article

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