Numerical simulations of fingering instabilities in surfactant-driven thin films

DOI10.1063/1.2180776zbMath1185.76602MaRDI QIDQ5755987

Richard V. Craster, Omar K. Matar

Publication date: 15 August 2007

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2180776

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76A20: Thin fluid films

76D08: Lubrication theory

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

76D27: Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows

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