Flow and transport in brush-coated capillaries: A molecular dynamics simulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Dimitrov, D I ^a,b   Klushin, L I ^c   Milchev, A ^a,d   Binder, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES   (Bulgaria)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMERS;

ASYMMETRIC CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; DRIFTDIFFUSION EQUATIONS; LENNARD-JONES FORCES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; REFLECTING BOUNDARY; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; THEORETICAL DENSITY;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 53549131227     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2975840     Document Type: Article

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