Numerical investigation of the formation and detachment of droplets from pores in a shear flow field

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1281, Issue , 2010, Pages 1684-1687

  Feigl, Kathleen ^a   Tanner, Franz X ^a   Windhab, Erich J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; dispersing process; Droplet formation; emulsions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954521375     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3498166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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