Direct numerical simulation of binary off-center collisions of shear thinning droplets at high Weber numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Focke, C ^a   Bothe, D ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; DROP BREAKUP; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW;

BINARY DROPLET COLLISIONS; COLLIDING DROPLETS; COLLISION DYNAMICS; DROPLET COLLISION; EXTENDED VOLUME; SHEAR-THINNING LIQUIDS; STABILIZATION ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

SHEAR THINNING;

EID: 84864754650     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4737582     Document Type: Article

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