Experimental and theoretical scaling laws for transverse diffusive broadening in two-phase laminar flows in microchannels

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2376-2378

  Ismagilov, Rustem F ^a   Stroock, Abraham D ^a   Kenis, Paul J A ^a   Whitesides, George ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000259359     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.126351     Document Type: Article

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