Shear-Induced Droplet Breakup and Subsequent Coalescence of the Daughter Droplets

2012/10/13 by Orest Shardt, Shardt, Orest, Alexandra Komrakova +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #physics.flu-dyn

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.3674

Contains high and low resolution videos for the Gallery of Fluid Motion at the 2012 APS DFD Annual Meeting

arxiv created 2012/10/13 · arxiv updated 2012/10/16

Abstract

In this fluid dynamics video we show simulations of droplet breakup and collisions in simple shear flow. Due to the high resolution of the GPU-based simulations, we capture the transition from coalescence at low capillary numbers to sliding at higher values.

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