Negative pressure characteristics of an evaporating meniscus at nanoscale

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Maroo, Shalabh C ^a,b   Chung, J N ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUID FILMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLATINUM;

CAPILLARY HEIGHT; CRITICAL FILM THICKNESS; EVAPORATING FILMS; EVAPORATING MENISCUS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LIQUID PRESSURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; LIQUID ARGON; NANO SCALE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84255173508     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-72     Document Type: Article

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