Vapor-Liquid Interfaces, Bubbles and Droplets

Download or read book Vapor-Liquid Interfaces, Bubbles and Droplets written by Shigeo Fujikawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physically correct boundary conditions on vapor-liquid interfaces are essential in order to make an analysis of flows of a liquid including bubbles or of a gas including droplets. Suitable boundary conditions do not exist at the present time. This book is concerned with the kinetic boundary condition for both the plane and curved vapor-liquid interfaces, and the fluid dynamics boundary condition for Navier-Stokes(fluid dynamics) equations. The kinetic boundary condition is formulated on the basis of molecular dynamics simulations and the fluid dynamics boundary condition is derived by a perturbation analysis of Gaussian-BGK Boltzmann equation applicable to polyatomic gases. The fluid dynamics boundary condition is applied to actual flow problems of bubbles in a liquid and droplets in a gas.