Surfactant-driven motion and splitting of droplets on a substrate

DOI10.1007/s10665-004-0959-2zbMath1074.76012MaRDI QIDQ2566866

Leonard W. Schwartz, R. Valéry Roy, R. R. Eley, H. M. Princen

Publication date: 29 September 2005

Published in: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-004-0959-2

zbMATH Keywords

cytokinesis; cell division; lubrication approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D08: Lubrication theory

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

92C17: Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.)

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