Instabilities in the flow of thin films on heterogeneous surfaces

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3341-3360

  Kondic, Lou ^a   Diez, Javier ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; THIN FILMS;

FLOW DYNAMICS; PATTERN FORMATION PROCESS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FILM THICKNESS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; INSTABILITY;

EID: 4544260322     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1772732     Document Type: Article

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