An experimental and numerical study of parasitic capillary waves

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1315-1323

  Fedorov, Alexey V ^a,b   Melville, W Kendall ^a   Rozenberg, Anatol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001733063     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869657     Document Type: Article

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