Bouncing, coalescence, and separation in head-on collision of unequal-size droplets

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tang, Chenglong ^a,b   Zhang, Peng ^a   Law, Chung K ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEPARATION;

HEAD-ON COLLISION; PARAMETER SPACES; REGIME DIAGRAM; SCALING ANALYSIS; SIZE DROPLETS; THEORETICAL MODELING; WATER DROPLETS; WEBER NUMBERS;

DROPS;

EID: 84857745512     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3679165     Document Type: Article

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