Drop trapping in axisymmetric constrictions with arbitrary contact angle

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ratcliffe, Thomas ^a   Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD; WETTING;

ARBITRARY VALUES; AXISYMMETRIC; DIMENSIONLESS RATIOS; INTERFACIAL FORCES; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; METHOD OF STEEPEST DESCENT; THREE-PHASE CONTACT LINE; YOUNG LAPLACE EQUATION;

DROPS;

EID: 84863514263     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4727922     Document Type: Article

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