Experimental and numerical study of anomalous thermocapillary convection in liquid gallium

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3331-3339

  Priede, Janis ^a,b   Cramer, Andreas ^a   Bojarevics, Andris ^b   Gelfgat, Alexander Yu ^c   Bar Yoseph, Pinhas Z ^c   Yarin, Alexander L ^c   Gerbeth, Gunter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0000594179     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870192     Document Type: Article

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