Surface-tension-driven dewetting of Newtonian and power-law fluids

DOI10.1007/s10665-004-3688-7zbMath1073.76003OpenAlexW1974004528MaRDI QIDQ2566872

J. C. Flitton, John R. King

Publication date: 29 September 2005

Published in: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-004-3688-7

zbMATH Keywords

shear-thinningshear-thickeningfourth-order degenerate parabolic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Thin fluid films (76A20) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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