Effect of viscosity on droplet-droplet collision outcome: Experimental study and numerical comparison

DOI10.1063/1.2781603zbMath1182.76285MaRDI QIDQ5303500

Bernhard Weigand, Hugo Atle Jakobsen, Hallvard F. Svendsen, Norbert Roth, Matthias Hase, Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen, Pavel Havelka

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2781603

zbMATH Keywords

two-phase flow; viscosity; flow separation; flow simulation; numerical analysis; collision processes; drops; stroboscopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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