Thepresentpaper isdedicatedtothestudyofcoalescenceand break-upphenomenaofviscousdropswithsurfacetension.The fluid is assumed tobeNewtonianand, therefore, isdescribed throughtheNavier-Stokesequations(NSEs).Theworkiscarried on through theuseof theRHOD-SPHschemedefined in 1 (weaddressthereadertothispaperfordetailsonthenumerical model)andreliesontheanalysisof theenergybalanceduring theabove-mentionedphenomena.
Antuono et al. (Tue,) studied this question.