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Similarity rules for isothermal bubble growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

W. E. Langlois
W. E. Langlois
Affiliation:
International Business Machines Corporation, San Jose Research Laboratory, San Jose, California
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Abstract

A normalized formulation of the problem of isothermal bubble growth, dominated by viscosity and diffusion, reveals that in its full generality the problem involves eight dimensionless parameters. Limiting cases for extreme values of each of these parameters are investigated.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 111 - 118
Copyright
© 1963 Cambridge University Press

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