Theoretical studies of microfluidics: "walking" drops and "melting" snowflakes.
The present PhD thesis summarizes two examples of research in microfluidics. Both times water was the subject of interest, once in the liquid state (droplets adsorbed on chemically functionalized surfaces), the other time in the solid state (ice snowflakes and their fractal behaviour). The first pr...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | en |
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
2011
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Online Access: | http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3875/ |