Numerical investigation of elongated drops in a microfluidic T-junction

DOI10.1063/1.3549266zbMath1308.76206OpenAlexW2037127308MaRDI QIDQ5244908

Alexander M. Leshansky, Shahriar Afkhami, Yuriko Yamamuro Renardy

Publication date: 31 March 2015

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24384

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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