Droplet charging regimes for ultrasonic atomization of a liquid electrolyte in an external electric field

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Forbes, Thomas P ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a,b   Fedorov, Andrei G ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATOMIZATION; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROLYTES; INK JET PRINTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RELAXATION TIME; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STROUHAL NUMBER;

CHARGE RELAXATION TIME; CHARGE TRANSPORT PROCESS; CHARGING ELECTRIC FIELD; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; ULTRASONIC ATOMIZATION;

DROPS;

EID: 79551554215     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3541818     Document Type: Article

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