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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MATHEMATIK UND PHYSIK
Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 517-531Publisher
BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-003-2090-z
Keywords
interfacial flows; capillary flows; laminar flows; coating flows; thin films; film rupture
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Starting from an exact solution of a visco-capillary gravity-driven film flow of a Newtonian fluid in an inclined channel, we discuss the special case of thin films. The shape of the free surface, the velocity field and the flow rate are obtained from a pure analytical treatment. Making use of an adequate rescaling with a generalized capillary length we pay special attention to vanishingly thin films where capillary effects become dominant. Our investigations deliver a necessary condition for the flow rate in order to avoid a film rupture.
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