Laminar flow deformation of a droplet adhering to a wall in a channel

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4523-4534

  Seevaratnam, G K ^a   Ding, H ^a   Michel, O ^a   Heng, J Y Y ^a   Matar, O K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffuse interface method; Droplet deformation; Flow visualisation; Laminar flow; Moving contact lines; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL WALL; CRITICAL CONDITION; DROPLET DEFORMATION; DROPLET MOTION; DROPLET VOLUME; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW MAPS; FLOW REGIMES; FLOW VISUALISATION; GLASS CELL; MOVING CONTACT LINES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OIL DROPLETS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; RIGID WALL; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISUALISATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DROP FORMATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 77954384547     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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