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capillary wave

wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid, whose dynamics and phase velocity are dominated by the effects of surface tension
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capillary wave

Summary

capillary wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • capillary wave's GND ID is recorded as 4251487-3[2].
  • capillary wave's subclass of is recorded as surface wave[3].
  • capillary wave's Commons category is recorded as Ripples (water waves)[4].
  • capillary wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/031f91[5].
  • capillary wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/capillary-wave[6].
  • capillary wave's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as capillary-waves[7].
  • capillary wave's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kapillarbølger[8].
  • capillary wave's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[9].
  • capillary wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 7982388[10].
  • capillary wave's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C7982388[11].

Why It Matters

capillary wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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