The inexorable resistance of inertia determines the initial regime of drop coalescence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6857-6861

  Paulsen, Joseph D ^a   Burton, Justin C ^a   Nagel, Sidney R ^a   Appathurai, Santosh ^b   Harris, Michael T ^b   Basaran, Osman A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emulsions; Fluid singularity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; DROP COALESCENCE; DYNAMICS; FLOW; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84860803563     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120775109     Document Type: Article

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