The fastest drop climbing on a wet conical fibre

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Li, Er Qiang ^a   Thoroddsen, Sigurdur T ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; DIGITAL STORAGE; FIBERS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; VISCOUS FLOW;

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH SPEED VIDEO IMAGING; MICRO DROPLETS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRANSIENT OSCILLATIONS; TRANSLATION VELOCITY; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; VISCOUS SCALING;

DROPS;

EID: 84878612449     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4805068     Document Type: Article

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