A blade-coating study using a finite-element simulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Iliopoulos, Ilias ^a,b   Scriven, L E ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATION (LBE); MEAN STREAMWISE VELOCITY (MSV); MULTIPLE RELAXATION TIME (MRT); RECTANGULAR TURBULENT JETS (RTJ);

JETS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 31344444602     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2140226     Document Type: Article

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