A VOF-based 3D numerical investigation of evaporating, deformed droplets

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 426-435

  Schlottke, Jan ^a   Dülger, Ebru ^a   Weigand, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformation; Droplets; Evaporation; VOF; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DROP BREAKUP; DROPS; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS;

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; EVAPORATION RATE; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; MASS FRACTION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; VAPOUR-PHASE; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 68249108064     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2009.027374     Document Type: Article

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