Radial spreading of a viscous drop between parallel-plane surfaces

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Ward, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DROP FORMATION; NEWTONIAN FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; GAP SPACING; PARALLEL-PLANE SURFACES; SQUEEZING FLOW MODEL;

RADIAL FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DROP FORMATION; NEWTONIAN FLOW; RADIAL FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 33749244937     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2338021     Document Type: Article

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