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Pendent_Drop: An ImageJ Plugin to Measure the Surface Tension from an Image of a Pendent Drop Cover

Pendent_Drop: An ImageJ Plugin to Measure the Surface Tension from an Image of a Pendent Drop

By: Adrian Daerr and  Adrien Mogne  
Open Access
|Jan 2016

References

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  2. To easily install Pendent_Drop we recommend installing enabling ImageJ from http://imagej.net/ and then enable the Pendent Drop update site http://sites.imagej.net/Daerr as described on http://fiji.sc/List_of_update_sites
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  11. Detailed documentation about Pendent_Drop (measurement bench, validation, theory, numerics, installation instructions etc.) is included as a PDF file. It can be accessed from within ImageJ via the menu Plugins->Drop Analysis->About Pendent Drop or found in the source tree at https://github.com/adaerr/pendent-drop/blob/master/article/Goutte_pendante.pdf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.97 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Published on: Jan 28, 2016
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2016 Adrian Daerr, Adrien Mogne, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.