...H. Ait Abderrahmane; G. H. Vatistas This technical brief deals with the surface instability mode of a liquid film flowing down an inclined plane. A four-equation model that describes the development of the film depth, the flow rate, the free-surface velocity, and the wall shear stress is proposed...

... numbers grow transiently, and those of large wave numbers grow exponentially. The range of stable wave numbers increases with increase in Hartmann number. 06 02 2008 09 12 2008 21 04 2009 evaporation film flow liquid films liquid theory lubricants nonlinear equations...

...-based range of Re δ ⩾ 30 . The wave effects due to film flow’s sensitivity to ever-present minuscule transverse vibrations of the condensing surface are also described. The results suggest some ways of choosing wall noise—through suitable actuators—that can enhance or dampen wave fluctuations and thus...

...R. Usha; B. Uma Weakly nonlinear stability analysis of thin power-law liquid film flowing down an inclined plane including the phase change effects at the interface has been investigated. A normal mode approach and the method of multiple scales are employed to carry out the linear stability...

.... Associated Editor: D. A. Siginer. 16 August 2000 28 April 2001 perturbation theory non-Newtonian flow non-Newtonian fluids film flow pressure lubrication confined flow laminar flow In recent years, hydrodynamically lubricated bearings are used under increasingly severe...

... final publication of the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 07 May 1999 02 Nov 2000 liquid films non-Newtonian flow film flow fracture finite difference methods initial value problems thin films flow instability Study of the rupture of thin...