Failure of thermocapillary-driven permanent nonwetting droplets

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Nagy, Peter T ^a   Neitzel, G Paul ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; LUBRICATING OILS; LUBRICATION;

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; LUBRICATING FILMS; LUBRICATION FILMS; MOLECULAR CONTACTS; NONWETTING DROPLETS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMOCAPILLARY; THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION;

DROPS;

EID: 76249106668     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3253998     Document Type: Article

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