Numerical simulation of the disintegration of forced liquid jets using volume-of-fluid method

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 317-333

  Srinivasan, Vedanth ^a   Salazar, Abraham J ^a   Saito, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disintegration; Droplets; Liquid jet; Numerical simulation; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL LIQUIDS; DROPLETS; LIQUID JET; LIQUID JETS; LIQUID STRUCTURES; MODULATED LIQUID JETS; MODULATION AMPLITUDES; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; THINNING PROCESS; VELOCITY MODULATION; VOLUME OF FLUID; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DROPS; ELECTRON BEAMS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE WAVES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 78649709205     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2010.529073     Document Type: Article

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