Persistence of Memory in Drop Breakup: The Breakdown of Universality

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1185-1188

  Doshi, Pankaj ^a,f   Cohen, Itai ^b   Zhang, Wendy W ^c   Siegel, Michael ^d   Howell, Peter ^e   Basaran, Osman A ^a   Nagel, Sidney R ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

AIR BUBBLES;

DROP BREAKUP;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLOW KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0242666142     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089272     Document Type: Article

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