Thermocapillary structure formation in a falling film: Experiment and calculations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Frank, A M ^a,b   Kabov, O A ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Convection; Film flow; Flow instability; Flow simulation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FILM FLOW; FLOW INSTABILITY; FLOW SIMULATION;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

CAPILLARY FLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 33645465222     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2187949     Document Type: Article

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