A continuum model of colloid-stabilized interfaces

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Aland, Sebastian ^a   Lowengrub, John ^b,c   Voigt, Axel ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; EMULSIFICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PHASE INTERFACES; RIGID STRUCTURES; SHEAR FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; BICONTINUOUS STRUCTURES; CAHN-HILLIARD MODEL; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; FLUID FLUID INTERFACES; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; STABILIZED INTERFACES;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 79960027338     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3584815     Document Type: Article

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