Moving contact lines and rivulet instabilities. Part 2. Long waves on flat rivulets

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001778zbMath0484.76063MaRDI QIDQ3944215

Ralph H. Weiland, Stephen H. Davis

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityinclined planeenergy integrallong wavesnormal mode analysisno-slip conditioneffective slipdisturbance equationscontact line conditionstatic rivuletcar windscreencontact line fixedcontact lines movefixed contact angleflat rivuletssurface tension boundary conditionswalls of showers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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Cites Work

• Wave formation in laminar flow down an inclined plane
• The moving contact line: the slip boundary condition
• A moving fluid interface. Part 2. The removal of the force singularity by a slip flow
• On the motion of a small viscous droplet that wets a surface
• On the motion of a fluid-fluid interface along a solid surface
• Stability of Liquid Flow down an Inclined Plane

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