Gravity-induced coalescence of drops at arbitrary Péclet numbers

DOI10.1017/S0022112094002879zbMATH Open0826.76091MaRDI QIDQ4835879FDOQ4835879

Authors: Robert H. Davis, Alexander Z. Zinchenko 

Publication date: 22 November 1995

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionanalytical continuationconvection-diffusion problemspower seriesconformal mappingdilute suspensioncollision efficiencybinary interactionscomplex Péclet numbersparabolization of Fokker-Planck equationquasi-steady Fokker-Planck equationvan der Waals attraction force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Diffusion and convection (76R99) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

Cites Work

• The lubrication force between two viscous drops
• On the low reynolds number motion of two droplets
• Calculation of hydrodynamic interaction between drops at low Reynolds numbers
• The slow asymmetric motion of two drops in a viscous medium
• Heat and Mass Transfer from Single Spheres in Stokes Flow
• Calculation of the effectiveness of gravitational coagulation of drops with allowance for internal circulation

Cited In (7)

• Coalescence-induced jumping of condensate droplets on microstructured surfaces with different gravitational fields by lattice Boltzmann method
• The effect of weak gravitational force on Brownian coagulation of small particles
• Collision efficiency of like-charged spheres settling in a quiescent environment
• Collision rate of bidisperse spheres settling in a compressional non-continuum gas flow
• The coalescence of two equal-sized drops in a two-dimensional linear flow
• Collision rates of spherical drops or particles in a shear flow at arbitrary Péclet numbers
• Gap in drop collision rate between diffusive and inertial regimes explains the stability of fogs and non-precipitating clouds

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