Spreading of viscous fluid drops on a solid substrate assisted by thermal fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Davidovitch, Benny ^a   Moro, Esteban ^b   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; LUBRICATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COMPLEX FLUID FILMS; FLOW GEOMETRIES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; VISCOUS FLUID DROPS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 33244474197     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.244505     Document Type: Article

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