When is it energetically favorable for a rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid to split?

DOI10.1063/1.1979521zbMath1187.76568OpenAlexW2048934495MaRDI QIDQ3555199

Brian R. Duffy, Stephen K. Wilson

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/2254/

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationswettingcontact angleflow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• The stability and flow of a rivulet driven by interfacial shear and gravity
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• Rivulet instabilities
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• Moving contact lines and rivulet instabilities. Part 2. Long waves on flat rivulets
• On the breakup of a thin liquid film subject to interfacial shear
• A rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid draining steadily down a slowly varying substrate

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