1979•Journal of Applied MechanicsRequires access
Small Reynolds Number Electro-Hydrodynamic Flow Around Drops and the Resulting Deformation
M. B. Stewart, Frank A. Morrison
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Abstract
Low Reynolds number flow in and about a droplet is generated by an electric field. Because the creeping flow solution is a uniformly valid zeroth-order approximation, a regular perturbation in Reynolds number is used to account for the effects of convective acceleration. The flow field and resulting deformation are predicted.