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Bifurcation of droplet flows within capillaries

Fabien Jousse1, Robert Farr, Darren R Link

  • 1Unilever Corporate Research, Colworth House, Sharnbrook MK44 1LQ, United Kingdom.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|October 10, 2006
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