Osmotically driven pipe flows and their relation to sugar transport in plants
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KÅRE H. JENSEN, EMMANUELLE RIO 1,3 , RASMUS HANSEN, CHRISTOPHE CLANET AND TOMAS BOHR Center for Fluid Dynamics, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Building 309, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Center for Fluid Dynamics, Department of Microand Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Nanotech Building 345 East, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 3 Present address: Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France. IRPHE, Universits d’Aix-Marseille, 49 Rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie BP 146, F-13384 Marseille cedex 13, France
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