η m	polymer viscosity of matrix
η d	polymer viscosity of droplet
γ	shear rate
Γ	interfacial tension
R	droplet radius
D 0	droplet diameter
Ca	capillary number
Ca crit	critical capillary number
p	viscosity radio
G	ellipsoid droplet tensor
L	velocity gradient tensor
Df	droplet deformability
L	major axis of droplet
B	minor axis of droplet
W	width of droplet
θ	orientation angle of droplet
τ r	surface-tension relaxation time
e ij	deformation rate tensor
w ij	vorticity tensor
f 1	MM model parameter
f 2	MM model parameter
k*	simplified capillary number
d	diameter of the split sub-droplet
d*	critical diameter of fiber breakup
t b	time required for droplet breakup
N d	total number of droplets of volume V
X m	main wave number
p coll	collision probability
t loc	local residence time
p exp	liquid film discharge probability
h c	critical thickness of the liquid film for breakup
D eq	diameter at equilibrium
$D_{eq}^0$	diameter at zero component
R*	radii of droplets after coalescence
nk	number of droplets of volume kV1
C(i, j)	coalescence coagulation kernel
F(i)	overall breakup frequency
nf(i)	number of fragments formed at breakup of a droplet of volume iV1
ω(i, j)	probability that a fragment formed by the breakup of a droplet of volume jV1 will have volume iV1
η αp	apparent viscosity of the blend
EDK	volume energy
R 0	droplet radius for ϕ = 0
tB*	dimensionless breakup time
R c	critical value for breakup
R*	ratio of R and Rc
D	diffusion coefficient
μ	chemical potential
c	concentration of the fluid
ξ	thermal noise
fσ,α(x,t)	particle probability distribution function
eα	discrete particle velocity
G(|eα|)	interaction function of pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann method
$g_{\sigma \overline{\sigma }}$	interaction constant
w(|eα|2)	weight function of LBM
ρ	density
u	velocity
P	pressure
T	temperature
c p	specific heat
λ	heat conductivity
η	viscosity
A	area tensor
dim	dimension
v σ	kinematic viscosity of component σ
ρ σ	density of component σ
τ σ	relaxation time of component σ
j σ	momentum flux of component σ