Dynamics of water droplet distortion and breakup in a uniform electric field

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2374-2383

  Adamiak, Kazimierz ^a   Floryan, Jerzy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Droplet distortion; electric field; electrohydrodynamics (EHDs); numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING LIQUID; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; UNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELDS; WATER DROPLETS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 82055172558     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2168797     Document Type: Article

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