A model for the human tear film with heating from within the eye

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Li, Longfei ^a   Braun, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FINITE THICKNESS; FIXED TEMPERATURE; LUBRICATION THEORY; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RECTANGULAR DOMAIN; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; THICK SUBSTRATES; THICKNESS OF THE FILM;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84863533891     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4723870     Document Type: Article

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