Capillary breakup of a liquid torus

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 717, Issue , 2013, Pages 281-292

  Mehrabian, Hadi ^a   Feng, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

breakup coalescence; drops; low Reynolds number flows

Indexed keywords

DROPS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BREAKUP/COALESCENCE; CAPILLARY INSTABILITY; DIFFUSE INTERFACE MODELS; EXTERNAL FLOW FIELDS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; MEDIUM VISCOSITY; NONLINEAR GROWTH; NUMERICAL RESULTS;

NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARY WAVE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID MECHANICS; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; NEWTONIAN FLUID; REYNOLDS NUMBER; CAPILLARITY; COALESCENCE;

EID: 84873371711     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.572     Document Type: Article

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