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SUBMITTER: Mayo LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453263 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mayo Lisa C LC McCue Scott W SW Moroney Timothy J TJ Forster W Alison WA Kempthorne Daryl M DM Belward John A JA Turner Ian W IW
Royal Society open science 20150520 5
A curvilinear thin film model is used to simulate the motion of droplets on a virtual leaf surface, with a view to better understand the retention of agricultural sprays on plants. The governing model, adapted from Roy et al. (2002 J. Fluid Mech. 454, 235-261 (doi:10.1017/S0022112001007133)) with the addition of a disjoining pressure term, describes the gravity- and curvature-driven flow of a small droplet on a complex substrate: a cotton leaf reconstructed from digitized scan data. Coalescence ...[more]