Stalactite growth as a free-boundary problem: A geometric law and its platonic ideal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Short, Martin B ^a   Baygents, James C ^b,c   Beck, J Warren ^a,c   Stone, David A ^c   Toomey III, Rickard S ^d   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a,c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Kartchner Caverns State Park   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-BOUNDARY PROBLEM; GEOMETRIC LAW; PLATONIC IDEAL; STALACTITES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SUPERSATURATION; THIN FILMS;

LIMESTONE;

EID: 18144372042     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.018501     Document Type: Article

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