Investigation of deformation and breakup of a moving droplet by the method of lattice Boltzmann equations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 827-849

  Fakhari, A ^a   Rahimian, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bag breakup; Droplet deformation; Lattice Boltzmann method; Shear breakup; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; BAG BREAKUP; DIFFERENT MODES; DROP DEFORMATION; DROPLET DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GAS FLOWS; GAS VISCOSITY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MOVING DROPLETS; PRIMARY BREAKUPS; RATE OF DEFORMATION; REYNOLDS; SHEAR BREAKUP; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; WEBER NUMBERS; ZERO GRAVITY;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; DEFORMATION; DROP FORMATION; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 78650452402     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2172     Document Type: Article

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