Capillary pinch-off in inviscid fluids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 568-578

  Leppinen, David ^a   Lister, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); JETS;

INVISCID FLUIDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CAPILLARY FLOW; INVISCID FLUID;

EID: 0037332070     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1537237     Document Type: Article

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