A full-scale numerical study of interfacial instabilities in thin-film flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 325, Issue , 1996, Pages 163-194

  Ramaswamy, B ^a   Chippada, S ^b   Joo, S W ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FOURIER SPECTRA; INTERFACIAL INSTABILITIES; LAGRANGEAN EULERIAN METHOD; SINUSOIDAL WAVES; THIN FILM FLOW; WAVE MERGING; WAVE SPLITTING; WAVENUMBER;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 0030260197     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096008075     Document Type: Article

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