Marcello Lappa1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.1, No.3, pp. 201-212, 2005, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2005.001.201
Abstract The manuscript deals with a presentation of the most reliable theories introduced over the years to model particle coalescence and non-coalescence phenomena at both macroscopic and microscopic length scales (including historical developments and very recent contributions) and moves through other macrophysical mechanisms that can cause spatial separation of the fluid phases (liquid-liquid or liquid-gas) in multi-material problems, while providing a rigorous theoretical framework for deeper understanding of how drop (or bubble) migration due to gravity and/or Marangoni effects can interact cooperatively with coalescence to significantly affect the multiphase pattern formation, its evolutionary progress as well More >