Gravity-driven slug motion in capillary tubes

DOI10.1063/1.3125262zbMath1183.76329OpenAlexW1993586623MaRDI QIDQ5304564

Ivan Lunati, Dani Or

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/143955

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationswettingpipe flowdragmultiphase flowgravity wavescapillarityflow simulationnumerical analysiscontact anglepoiseuille flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• RIPPLE

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