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Capillary Surfaces

Shape — Stability — Dynamics, in Particular Under Weightlessness

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Dieter Langbein

    1. Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  • Up-to-date overview
  • First review on the subject
  • With a forword by astronaut Ulf Merbold
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 178)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-20

  3. Interface Tension and Contact Angle

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 21-39

  4. Capillary Shape and Stability

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 41-65

  5. Stability Criteria

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 67-88

  6. Axisymmetric Liquid Columns at Rest and Under Rotation

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 89-118

  7. Liquid Zones

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 119-147

  8. Canthotaxis/Wetting Barriers/Pinning Lines

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 149-177

  9. Cylindrical Containers

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 179-211

  10. Liquid Surfaces in Polyhedral Containers

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 213-234

  11. Playing with Stability

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 235-258

  12. Liquid Penetration into Tubes and Wedges

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 259-285

  13. Oscillations of Liquid Columns

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 287-322

  14. Microgravity Experiments in Sounding Rockets, Spacelab and EURECA

    • Dieter Langbein
    Pages 323-359

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 361-366
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  • Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Dieter Langbein

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