A numerical method for two phase flows with insoluble surfactants

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-165

  Khatri, Shilpa ^a   Tornberg, Anna Karin ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Drop deformation; Navier Stokes equations; Shear flows; Surface tension; Surfactants; Two phase flows

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DROP DEFORMATION; EULERIAN; FLOW PARAMETERS; INSOLUBLE SURFACTANTS; INTERFACIAL SURFACTANTS; MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS; REGULAR GRIDS; SINGULAR SURFACES; STRANG SPLITTING; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-STEPPING; TWO-DIMENSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEFORMATION; DELTA FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DROPS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOUS FLOW;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 79960891767     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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