Dynamics of three-dimensional thin film rupture

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 155-176

  Witelski, Thomas P ^a   Bernoff, Andrew J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBSTRATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VISCOUS FLOW;

FINITE-TIME SINGULARITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL THIN FILM RUPTURES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0034517240     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00165-2     Document Type: Article

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