Developing laminar gravity-driven thin liquid film flow down an inclined plane

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Lan, H ^a   Wegener, J L ^a   Armaly, B F ^a   Drallmeier, J A ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT LINES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FASTER RATES; FILM FLOW RATE; FILM FLOWS; FILM VELOCITY; HORIZONTAL PLANES; INCLINED PLANES; LASER FOCUS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SPANWISE DISTRIBUTION; STREAMWISE DIRECTIONS; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SURFACE INCLINATION ANGLE; THIN LIQUID FILM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VOLUME OF FLUID MODEL;

LIQUID FILMS; MACHINERY; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77956696350     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002109     Document Type: Article

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