Corrugated interfaces in multiphase core-annular flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Shum, Ho Cheung ^a   Sauret, Alban ^a,b   Fernandez Nieves, Alberto ^a,c   Stone, Howard A ^a,d   Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMULSIONS;

COMPLEX SHAPES; CORE-ANNULAR FLOW; CORRUGATED INTERFACES; DOUBLE EMULSIONS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MONODISPERSE DOUBLE EMULSIONS; MULTIPLE EMULSIONS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION;

DROPS;

EID: 77956646047     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3480561     Document Type: Article

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22. See supplementary material at for figures on the generation of corrugations at different flow rates and for a description of the procedures for the numerical calculations.