Colloquium: Soap bubble clusters

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 821-827

  Morgan, Frank ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FOAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

AREA MINIMIZATION; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; FINITE CLUSTERS; FIRE-EXTINGUISHING FOAMS; FROTHS MODEL; LEAST-PERIMETER WAY; MATHEMATICAL PROOF; METALLURGICAL STRUCTURES; SOAP BUBBLE CLUSTERS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

EID: 34547218960     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.79.821     Document Type: Article

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