Coating flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2004, Pages 29-53

  Weinstein, Steven J ^a   Ruschak, Kenneth J ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coating dies; Coating methods; Dynamic wetting; Liquid curtains; Liquid films

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COATING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WETTING;

DIE FLOW; DYNAMIC WETTING LINE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COATING; FLUID MECHANICS; LIQUID FILM; LIQUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 1642352831     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.36.050802.122049     Document Type: Article

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