Abstract—Deformation of a rotating two-lobed liquid droplet was simulated numerically by solving the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations
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Deformation of a rotating two-lobed liquid droplet was simulated numerically by solving the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations using the level set method. The two-lobed droplet was formed by rotating a spherical droplet; the droplet changed its shape from the sphere to the rotating ellipsoid, and to the two-lobed shape. It was found that the time histories of the deformation of two-lobed droplet were almost the same for the cases with different initial rotation rate. The relationship between the deformation and the rotation rate was shown to agree qualitatively with the experimental data, and the preservation of rotation energy was confirmed. Keywords—Deformation, Rotation, Simulation, Two-lobed droplet
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