Observation of Marangoni convection in a half-zone silicon melt

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1417-1421

  Nakamura, Shin ^a   Hibiya, Taketoshi ^a   Imaishi, Nobuyuki ^b   Yoda, Shin Ichi ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 0039844772     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00755-3     Document Type: Article

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