Unique fingering instabilities and soliton-like wave propagation in thin acoustowetting films

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rezk, Amgad R ^a,b   Manor, Ofer ^a,b   Friend, James R ^a,b   Yeo, Leslie Y ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; FILM; FINGERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FILM; FINGERING INSTABILITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS; SOUND; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84869389457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2168     Document Type: Article

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