Dynamics and stability of thin liquid films

RV Craster, OK Matar - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
The dynamics and stability of thin liquid films have fascinated scientists over many decades:
the observations of regular wave patterns in film flows down a windowpane or along …

Wetting phenomena in nanofluidics

M Rauscher, S Dietrich - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We focus on the dynamical aspects of wetting phenomena on the nanoscale for which bulk
hydrodynamic equations become invalid. At the nanoscale, phenomena that are irrelevant …

Dynamics and function of the tear film in relation to the blink cycle

RJ Braun, PE King-Smith, CG Begley, L Li… - Progress in retinal and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Great strides have recently been made in quantitative measurements of tear film thickness
and thinning, mathematical modeling thereof and linking these to sensory perception. This …

Film flows in the presence of electric fields

DT Papageorgiou - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The presence of electric fields in immiscible multifluid flows induces Maxwell stresses at
sharp interfaces that can produce electrohydrodynamic phenomena of practical importance …

Marangoni instability of a thin liquid film heated from below by a local heat source

S Kalliadasis, A Kiyashko… - Journal of Fluid …, 2003 - cambridge.org
We consider the motion of a liquid film falling down a heated planar substrate. Using the
integral-boundary-layer approximation of the Navier–Stokes/energy equations and free …

Gravity-driven flow of continuous thin liquid films on non-porous substrates with topography

PH Gaskell, PK Jimack, M Sellier… - Journal of Fluid …, 2004 - cambridge.org
A range of two-and three-dimensional problems is explored featuring the gravity-driven flow
of a continuous thin liquid film over a non-porous inclined flat surface containing well …

Films over topography: from cree** flow to linear stability, theory, and experiments, a review

N Aksel, M Schörner - Acta Mechanica, 2018 - Springer
The present review deals with the effects of topography and inertia on gravity-driven film
flows. The article is organized like a rope ladder, with the rungs of topography and inertia …

Interplay of fluid rheology and micro-patterning toward modulating draining characteristics on an inclined substrate

A Das, A Kumar, C Bakli - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate a gravity-driven thin film flow of a non-Newtonian liquid over an inclined
micro-patterned surface. We demonstrate the effect of micro-patterning on the film draining …

Thin film flow over structured packings at moderate Reynolds numbers

P Valluri, OK Matar, GF Hewitt, MA Mendes - Chemical engineering …, 2005 - Elsevier
A model describing the dynamic evolution of waves on laminar falling wavy films at low to
moderate Reynolds numbers (Re< 30) over corrugated surfaces is presented. This model is …

Gravity-driven flows of viscous liquids over two-dimensional topographies

MMJ Decré, JC Baret - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - cambridge.org
Using phase-stepped interferometry, we have measured full two-dimensional maps of the
free-surface shape of a thin liquid film of water flowing over an inclined plate with …