Spatial instability of coflowing liquid-gas jets in capillary flow focusing

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Si, Ting ^a   Li, Fang ^a   Yin, Xie Yuan ^a   Yin, Xie Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; LIQUEFIED GASES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STABILITY; STREAM FLOW;

CO-FLOWING LIQUIDS; INSTABILITY ANALYSIS; LIQUID VELOCITY PROFILES; NONAXISYMMETRIC DISTURBANCES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; TEMPORAL INSTABILITY; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 79251567707     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3490066     Document Type: Article

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