Droplets on patterned substrates: Water off a beetle's back

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-261

  Dupuis, A ^a   Yeomans, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beetle; Lattice Boltzmann model; Patterned substrate; Wetting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TENSION; WATER; WETTING;

DROPLETS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODEL; PATTERNED SUBSTRATE;

FLUID MECHANICS;

FLOW PATTERN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 29544446762     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1130     Document Type: Article

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