The optimal faucet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Chen, H Henry ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; CONTACT ANGLE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREE ENERGY; GRAVITATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NOZZLES; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STABILITY; SURFACE TENSION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CIRCULAR NOZZLES; FLUID DROPLETS; NONCIRCULAR NOZZLES; YOUNG-LAPLACE EQUATIONS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 2942583961     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.166106     Document Type: Article

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