Buoyancy-driven coalescence of slightly deformable drops

DOI10.1017/S002211209700623XzbMath0907.76019OpenAlexW2085672684MaRDI QIDQ4379215

Robert H. Davis, Michael A. Rother, Alexander Z. Zinchenko

Publication date: 9 March 1999

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211209700623x

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionscollisioninner solutionouter solutionfour dimensionless parametersgravity-induced sedimentationmatrix-iterative methodnon-Brownian liquid dropsshort-range van der Waals attraction forcessmall-gap lubrication forces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lubrication theory (76D08) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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