Finger Instability in Wetting-Dewetting Phenomena

Langmuir

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 291-294

  Leizerson, I ^a   Lipson, S G ^a   Lyushnin, A V ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b PERM STATE HUMANITARIAN PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MICA; NUCLEATION; STABILITY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOELECTRIC REFRIGERATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VISCOUS FLOW; WETTING;

FINGER INSTABILITY; THERMOELECTRIC COOLERS (TC);

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0942277367     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la034955h     Document Type: Article

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