Universal scaling laws for the disintegration of electrified drops

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

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4905-4910

  Collins, Robert T ^a,b   Sambath, Krishnaraj ^a   Harris, Michael T ^a   Basaran, Osman A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charged drops; Electrohydrodynamics; Microfluidics; Nonlinearity; Tip streaming

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIZATION; METEOROLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SURFACE CHARGE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84875543061     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213708110     Document Type: Article

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