elastocapillarity

noun

elastic capillarity

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounelastocapillarity (uncountable)
  1. uncountablenatural scienceselastic capillarity

    Within this framework, the composite stiffness depends solely on the ratio of the elastocapillarity length L to the inclusion radius R.

    2015, Francesco Mancarella, Robert W. Style, John S. Wettlaufer, “Interfacial tension and a three-phase generalized self-consistent theory of non-dilute soft composite solids”, in arXiv

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