Droplet size distribution in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Perlekar, Prasad ^a   Biferale, Luca ^b   Sbragaglia, Mauro ^b   Srivastava, Sudhir ^a   Toschi, Federico ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROP FORMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DROPLET DEFORMATION; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; INDIVIDUAL DROPLETS; LAGRANGIAN TRACKING; MULTI-COMPONENT LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHODS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 84863507384     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4719144     Document Type: Article

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