Using Cahn-Hilliard mobility to simulate coalescence dynamics

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2246-2259

  Dupuy, Pablo M ^a   Fernandino, Maria ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a   Svendsen, Hallvard F ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chemical potential; Diffuse interface model; High density ratio; Interface; Lattice Boltzmann equation; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; DIFFUSE INTERFACE MODELS; DROPLET COLLISION; FILM DRAINAGE; FILM RUPTURE; HIGH DENSITY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATION; LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; MESOSCALE; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION; TIME CHARACTERISTICS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CHEMICALS; DROP FORMATION; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COALESCENCE;

EID: 77949487936     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.08.050     Document Type: Article

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