Critical droplet volume for spontaneous capillary wrapping

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Longquan ^a   Wang, Xiang ^a   Wen, Weijia ^a   Li, Zhigang ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONTACT LINES; CRITICAL DROPLETS; CRITICAL VOLUME; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; DROPLET VOLUME; THIN SHEET;

BLOOD VESSELS; SILICONES; SURFACE TENSION;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 77957141343     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3492834     Document Type: Article

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