Collective effects of temperature gradients and gravity on droplet coalescence

DOI10.1063/1.858837zbMath0800.76488OpenAlexW2095578174MaRDI QIDQ4271349

Robert H. Davis, Xiaoguang Zhang, Hua Wang

Publication date: 20 December 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858837

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

Related Items (4)

The collision rate of small drops in linear flow fields ⋮ Simultaneous sedimentation and coalescence of a dilute dispersion of small drops ⋮ Collective hydrodynamics of deformable drops and bubbles in dilute low Reynolds number suspensions ⋮ Breakup and capture of two sedimenting drops in a vertical temperature gradient

Cites Work

• The motion of bubbles in a vertical temperature gradient
• The rate of collisions due to Brownian or gravitational motion of small drops
• The rate of coagulation of a dilute polydisperse system of sedimenting spheres
• The lubrication force between two viscous drops
• Interactions and collisions of bubbles in thermocapillary motion

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