Wetting and minimal surfaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Bachas, Constantin ^a,b   Le Doussal, Pierre ^a   Wiese, Kay Jörg ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOUNDARY EQUATIONS; CONTACT LINES; JOANNY-DE GENNES ENERGY; PERTURBATION THEORY;

WETTING;

EID: 33947196226     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.031601     Document Type: Article

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