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. 2003 May;67(5 Pt 2):056311.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.056311. Epub 2003 May 22.

Tolman's nonlinearity of capillary waves

Anton V Dolgikh  1 , Dmitry L Dorofeev, Boris A Zon
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Tolman's nonlinearity of capillary waves

Anton V Dolgikh et al. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 May.

Abstract

A nonlinear theory of nanometer capillary waves is developed that takes curvature dependence of the surface tension coefficient (Tolman's nonlinearity) into account. Estimations are given that indicate the importance of Tolman's nonlinearity for thermocapillary waves.

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