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Soap opera in the maze: Geometry matters in Marangoni flows

Fernando Temprano-Coleto1,*, François J. Peaudecerf2, Julien R. Landel3, Frédéric Gibou1,4, and Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz1

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
  • 2Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
  • 3School of Mathematics, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
  • 4Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States

  • *Corresponding author: ftempranocoleto@ucsb.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 100507 – Published 17 October, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.100507

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This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2017 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award. The original video is available from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2017.GFM.V0098

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 100507– Published 17 October, 2018
  • Received 2 February 2018
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