Inertial instability of a liquid film inside a rotating horizontal cylinder

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Benilov, Eugene S ^a   O'brien, S B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LUBRICATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STABILITY; SURFACE TENSION; THIN FILMS; VISCOSITY;

ASYMPTOTIC EQUATIONS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE GRADIENT; INERTIAL INSTABILITY; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

LIQUID FILM; ROTATING FLOW;

EID: 20444374742     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1905964     Document Type: Article

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