Self-similar drop-size distributions produced by breakup in chaotic flows
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters; (USA)
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0909 (US) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Deformation and breakup of immiscible fluids in deterministic chaotic flows is governed by self-similar distributions of stretching histories and stretching rates and produces populations of droplets of widely distributed sizes. Scaling reveals that distributions of drop sizes collapse into two self-similar families; each family exhibits a different shape, presumably due to changes in the breakup mechanism.
- OSTI ID:
- 5731713
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters; (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (USA) Vol. 67:1; ISSN PRLTA; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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