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CAPILLARY LENGTH [2 records]

Record 1 1994-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Étalon de longueur d'une dendrite douée de tension superficielle et qui apparaît dans les calculs comme un mélange de grandeurs thermodynamiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
CONT

Snapshots of the interface growing out from a fourfold seed are obtained by the boundary integral method. The axes are in the units of capillary length (Sanders et al. 1985).

CONT

The capillary length d (zero) is a microscopic quantity, typically in the order of Angstroms. However, the diffusion length l is usually macroscopic, varying in a wide range depending on the given growth process. Thus Laplacian growth make take place on very different length scales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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