Water-walking devices

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 769-778

  Hu, David L ^a,b   Prakash, Manu ^a   Chan, Brian ^c   Bush, John W M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY;

HYDROPHOBIC COATINGS; MECHANICAL DEVICES; SPEED CINEMATOGRAPHY;

WALKING AIDS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; WALKING AIDS;

EID: 35948948330     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-007-0339-6     Document Type: Article

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