Non-isothermal spreading of a thin liquid film on an inclined plane

DOI10.1017/S0022112096007914zbMath0885.76018MaRDI QIDQ4354047

Michael J. Miksis, S. G. Bankoff, P. Gilberto López

Publication date: 10 September 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability analysis; contact line motion; steady-state solution; heated inclined plate; thermocapillarity; maximum growth rate; unstable wavenumbers; surface Biot number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D08: Lubrication theory

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

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