For drops smaller than the channel width, the increase was slow, proportional to φ0.1, yet was much faster, proportional to φ, for larger drops.
In this paper, the generation of micron-sized drops (smaller than 1.5 μm) is achieved through a simple device, suggested by the numerical experiments by Suryo and Basaran [R.
On-demand drops much smaller than the diameter of the delivery nozzle may also contain particles.
At a given critical pressure, a triangular nozzle with stretched corners produces drops 20% smaller than those squirting from a circular nozzle, they report in the 23 April issue of Physical Review Letters.
Japanese machinery orders fell slightly in May, government data showed, but the drop was smaller than expected after a surge in April.
And the investment bank added that the size of its revenue drop was smaller than the 18 percent by which announced mergers activity fell from the year-ago period, according to Thomson Reuters.
European economic confidence fell, in December, to its lowest point in two years, though the drop was smaller than predicted by economists.
An average heat transfer increase over the baseline case of 21% for dry conditions and 23.4% for wet conditions was achieved with a pressure drop penalty smaller than 7%.
Home prices slid 5.3percentt last year in Norwalk — to $500,000 from $528,000 in 2007 — but the drop was smaller than that of most other Fairfield County towns: Prices declined more than 10percentt in Stamford, Stratford, Ridgefield and Trumbull, and 23.19 percent in Bridgeport.
The drop was smaller than economists had expected, but the April sales figure was revised lower, leaving a report that was largely in line with expectations in financial markets.
