Bifurcation of the equilibrium states of a weightless liquid bridge

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1893-1905

  Slobozhanin, Lev A ^a,b   Alexander, J Iwan D ^a   Resnick, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

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EID: 0000976849     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869310     Document Type: Article

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