The coalescence of two equal-sized drops in a two-dimensional linear flow

DOI10.1063/1.1358873zbMath1184.76602OpenAlexW2054543962MaRDI QIDQ3555442

C. Charles Park, Hong Yang, L. Gary Leal, Y. Thomas Hu

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1358873

zbMATH Keywords

two-phase flowdeformationcollision processesdrops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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