Heart-shaped bubbles rising in anisotropic liquids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Chunfeng ^a   Yue, Pengtao ^a   Feng, James J ^a   Liu, Chun ^b   Shen, Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MICELLES; SURFACE TENSION;

ANISOTROPIC LIQUIDS; ANISOTROPIC MICELLAR SOLUTION; BULK ELASTICITY; NEMATIC PHASE;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ANISOTROPY; BUBBLE FORMATION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MICELLES; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 34248161537     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722421     Document Type: Article

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