Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 737-742

  Gañán Calvo, Alfonso M ^a   González Prieto, Román ^a   Riesco Chueca, Pascual ^a   Herrada, Miguel A ^a   Flores Mosquera, María ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Ingeniatrics SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLUIDS; CONTINUUM LIMITS; DOUBLE FLOW; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; LIQUID DROPLETS; MONO-DISPERSE; NANO SCALE; NANOMETRES;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 34848813914     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys710     Document Type: Article

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