Wicking flow through microchannels

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mehrabian, Hadi ^a   Gao, Peng ^b   Feng, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); MAGNETIC BUBBLES;

CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; COMPLEX DEFORMATION; CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION; DIFFUSE INTERFACE; INTERFACIAL DYNAMICS; MOVING CONTACT LINES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THREE-PHASE CONTACT LINE;

EXPANSION;

EID: 84855257654     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671739     Document Type: Article

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