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

DOI10.1063/1.1979521MaRDI QIDQ3555199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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 angleflow instabilityNavier-Stokes equationswetting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Cites work

• A rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid draining steadily down a slowly varying substrate
• A rivulet of perfectly wetting fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity draining down a uniformly heated or cooled slowly varying substrate
• Moving contact lines and rivulet instabilities. Part 1. The static rivulet
• 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
• Rivulet instabilities
• The stability and flow of a rivulet driven by interfacial shear and gravity

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

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