Stability of liquid crystalline bridges

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 491-493

  Mahajan, Milind P ^a   Tsige, Mesfin ^a   Taylor, P L ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 6244263607     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869871     Document Type: Article

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