Unstable van der Waals driven line rupture in Marangoni driven thin viscous films

DOI10.1063/1.1460878zbMath1185.76391OpenAlexW1978892179MaRDI QIDQ3555944

Richard V. Craster, Mark Warner, Omar K. Matar

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1460878

zbMATH Keywords

convectioninitial value problemswettingsurface tensionfilm floweigenvalues and eigenfunctionsthin filmsnumerical analysislubricationsurfactantsflow instabilityliquid films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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Uses Software

• VLUGR2
• Algorithm 731
• CWRESU
• CWRESX

Cites Work

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