Linear stability and transient growth in driven contact lines

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 530-539

  Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

CONTACT LINES; FINGER FORMATION; FINGERING INSTABILITY; INCLINATION ANGLE; STOKES EQUATIONS; TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTION; WETTING FLUIDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031103749     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869217     Document Type: Article

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