New investigations in capillary fluidics using a drop tower

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wollman, Andrew ^a   Weislogel, Mark ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPLET DYNAMICS; DROPLET EJECTION; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LENGTH SCALE; MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICLE INJECTION; TOWER DESIGN;

CAPILLARITY; DROP FORMATION; FLUIDICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOWERS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84875833193     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-013-1499-1     Document Type: Article

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