Oscillations with uniquely long periods in a microfluidic bubble generator

Nature Physics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 168-171

  Garstecki, Piotr ^a,b   Fuerstman, Michael J ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE GENERATORS; COMPLETE CONTROL; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; EXTERNAL CONTROL; OSCILLATORY PATTERNS; REAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL COMPLEXITY; STABLE LIMIT CYCLE;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 33746280072     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys176     Document Type: Article

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