Recent content by freireib

Here is a good link with a nice geometric explanation. http://www.tjleone.com/BinomialSquareExplained.pdf

Are the plates pulled apart quickly or very slowly. The "quickness" will be controlled by the capillary number. For slow speeds the derivation will follow directly from the Laplace Young equation relating the curvature of the bridge surface to the pressure inside the bridge. For high speeds...

Ali Inam's response is exactly correct, however, it would probably be helpful for you (astro2cosmos) to work through the derivation including the terms you think are missing and see what happens. This is the only way you'll ever be convinced that they don't matter.

There are plenty of incompressible (i.e. no shocks) fluid mechanical problems that CFD is used for solving in industry. However, a lot of times a finite difference code will actually treat the material as slightly compressible for numerical stability reasons. In these cases compressible...