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Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1203-1206

  Burgess, John M ^a   Juel, Anne ^a,b   McCormick, W D ^a   Swift, J B ^a   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETRY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; STABILITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER; WETTING;

LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; THERMOCAPILLARY STABILIZATION;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 14344280831     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1203     Document Type: Article

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