Equilibrium states and ground state of two-dimensional fluid foams

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 0114021-01140213

  Graner, F ^a   Jiang, Y ^b   Janiaud, E ^c,d   Flament, C ^e  

^a LIPHY   (France)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Université Parts 7   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; TOPOLOGY;

FLUID FOAMS;

FOAMS;

EID: 17044444108     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.011402     Document Type: Article

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