Competing geometric and inertial effects on local flow structure in thick gravity-driven fluid films

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Scholle, M ^a   Haas, A ^a   Aksel, N ^a   Wilson, M C T ^b   Thompson, H M ^b   Gaskell, P H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM THICKNESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CENTER LOCATIONS; COMPLEX VARIABLE METHOD; CORRUGATED SUBSTRATES; DIVIDING STREAMLINE; FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; FREE SURFACE FILM FLOWS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LOCAL FLOW STRUCTURE;

FLOW STRUCTURE;

EID: 58249085417     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3041150     Document Type: Article

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