Instability of a liquid film flowing down an inclined wavy plane

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(03)00242-2zbMath1036.76019MaRDI QIDQ1413516

A. Wierschem, Nuri Aksel

Publication date: 16 November 2003

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical Reynolds number; geometric nonlinearities; spatial disturbance growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76A20: Thin fluid films

76E09: Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability

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