An extended study of the hydrodynamics of gravity-driven film flow of power-law fluids

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 345-357

  Andersson, Helge I ^a   Shang, De Yi ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASTIC FILMS; STRESSES; THIN FILMS; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

FILM FLOW; GRAVITY DRIVEN FLOW; MASS FLOW RATE; POWER LAW FLUIDS; SKIN FRICTION COEFFICIENT;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032097635     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5983(97)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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