The role of microstructure in taming the Rayleigh capillary instability of cylindrical jets

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 161-182

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Flow stability; Free surface flows; Liquid crystals; Non Newtonian flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042766072     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00119-5     Document Type: Article

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