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

DOI10.1063/1.1979521zbMATH Open1187.76568OpenAlexW2048934495MaRDI QIDQ3555199FDOQ3555199

Authors: S. K. Wilson, B. R. Duffy 

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

contact angleNavier-Stokes equationsflow instabilitywetting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Cites Work

• Moving contact lines and rivulet instabilities. Part 1. The static rivulet
• A rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity draining down a uniformly heated or cooled slowly varying substrate
• The stability and flow of a rivulet driven by interfacial shear and gravity
• Rivulet instabilities
• Moving contact lines and rivulet instabilities. Part 2. Long waves on flat rivulets
• A rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid draining steadily down a slowly varying substrate
• On the breakup of a thin liquid film subject to interfacial shear

Cited In (3)

• On the stability of shallow rivulets
• Dewetting of a corner film wrapping a wall-mounted cylinder
• Static rivulet instabilities: varicose and sinuous modes

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