On the gravity-driven draining of a rivulet of viscous fluid down a slowly varying substrate with variation transverse to the direction of flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-22

  Wilson, S K ^a   Duffy, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISCOUS FLOW;

GRAVITY DRIVEN DRAINING; RIVULET; VARIATION TRANSVERSE;

NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

DRAINAGE; FLUID FLOW; VISCOUS FLUID;

DRAINING; FLUID FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031809978     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869569     Document Type: Article

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