Crossover between surface tension and gravity-driven instabilities of a thin fluid layer on a horizontal cylinder

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1599-1605

  De Bruyn, John R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODIES-CYLINDERS; INSTABILITY; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0030882325     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869280     Document Type: Article

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