Instability of thin liquid films by density variations: A new mechanism that mimics spinodal dewetting

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 186101/1-186101/4

  Sharma, Ashutosh ^a   Mittal, Jeetain ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DENSITY VARIATIONS; DEWETTING; THIN LIQUID FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0037191460     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.186101     Document Type: Article

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