Breakup of a poorly conducting liquid thread subject to a radial electric field at zero Reynolds number

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Qiming ^a,b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHODS; CYLINDRICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTION; FINITE CONDUCTIVITY; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RADIAL ELECTRIC FIELD; SATELLITE FORMATIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 84868613538     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757388     Document Type: Article

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