Parameters ruling capillary forces at the submillimetric scale

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 9537-9543

  Lambert, Pierre ^a   Delchambre, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TENSION;

CAPILLARY FORCES; LAPLACE EQUATIONS; SIMULATION TOOLS; TEST BEDS;

CAPILLARITY;

EID: 27144495806     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la0507131     Document Type: Article

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