Wilson, S.K. (2005) Unidirectional flow of a thin rivulet on a vertical substrate subject to a prescribed uniform shear stress at its free surface. Physics of Fluids, 17 (10). ISSN 1070-6631
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2100987
Abstract
We use the lubrication approximation to analyze the steady unidirectional flow of a thin rivulet on a vertical substrate subject to a prescribed uniform longitudinal shear stress at its free surface. In particular, we determine the quasisteady stability of a rivulet of prescribed flux, and calculate when it is energetically favorable for a rivulet to split into two narrower rivulets.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 2266 |
| Keywords: | shear flow, lubrication, flow instability, pattern formation, fluid physics, Mathematics, Physics |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2006 |
| Last modified: | 13 Mar 2012 09:02 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/2266 |
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