...Yoshiyuki Iso; Xi Chen Gas-liquid two-phase interfacial flows, such as the liquid film flows (also known as wetting flows on walls), are observed in many industrial processes including absorption, desorption, distillation, and so on. The present study focuses on the characteristics of wetting flows...

...Eiji Ishii; Masanori Ishikawa; Yoshihiro Sukegawa; Hiroshi Yamada The fuel spray of an injector for automobile engines contains multiscale free surfaces: liquid films formed at the fuel-injector outlet, ligaments generated by liquid-film breakup, and droplets generated from the ligaments within...

.... Thermal Energy Power , 22 ( 4 ), pp. 395 – 467 . film flow liquid films oils rotational flow viscosity oil film drive characteristics transferred torque rotating disk A hydroviscous drive (HVD) transmits power using viscosity of the oil film between rotating disks. Therefore...

.../S0022112098001670 Pozrikidis , C. , 1989 , “ A Singularity Method for Unsteady Linearized Flow ,” Phys. Fluids A 0899-8213 , 1 , pp. 1508 – 1520 . 10.1063/1.857329 damping drag liquid films lubrication microfluidics microsensors plates (structures) vibrations viscosity...

...H. Lan; J. L. Wegener; B. F. Armaly; J. A. Drallmeier Three-dimensional (3D)—steady-developing-laminar-isothermal—and gravity-driven thin liquid film flow adjacent to an inclined plane is examined and the effects of film flow rate, surface tension, and surface inclination angle on the film...

...C. K. Chen; M. C. Lin This paper investigates the stability of a thin liquid film with condensation effects during spin coating. A generalized nonlinear kinematic model is derived by the long-wave perturbation method to represent the physical system. The weakly nonlinear dynamics of a film flow...

...R. W. Hewson The formation of a thin liquid film onto a moving substrate is a commonly encountered industrial process, and one that is encountered in lubrication, oil extraction processes, and coating flows. The formation of such a film is analyzed via the analytical Stokes flow solution...

... in the supercritical stable region, and the results show that the shape of the wave is influenced by the choice of wave number, non-Newtonian rheology, and nonuniform heating. capillarity external flows film flow flow instability Ginzburg-Landau theory gravity waves liquid films nonlinear equations non...

...Po-Jen Cheng The long-wave perturbation method is employed to investigate the nonlinear hydromagnetic stability of a thin electrically conductive power-law liquid film flowing down a vertical cylinder. In contrast to most previous studies presented in literature, the solution scheme employed...

... of velocity magnitude ( a ) and shear-stress distribution and streamlines ( b ) of flow at Re = 100 , Fr = 0.4 , α = 0 , and ε = 0.01 . The exit condition is parabolic. boundary layers film flow Galerkin method liquid films This study focuses...

...M. A. Friedrich; H. Lan; J. L. Wegener; J. A. Drallmeier; B. F. Armaly The behavior of a shear-driven thin liquid film at a sharp expanding corner is of interest in many engineering applications. However, details of the interaction between inertial, surface tension, and gravitational forces...

...Anne Gosset; Jean-Marie Buchlin This paper presents an analysis of the gas-jet wiping process in hot-dip galvanization. This technique consists of reducing the liquid film thickness on a moving substrate by applying gas slot jets. A theoretical development allows the computation of the film...

...Askar Gubaidullin 15 11 2005 14 04 2006 liquid films drops flow separation boundary layers sprays Furthermore, the separation may strongly depend on the wave characteristics. Thus, accurate experimental measurements of those are required. Additionally, under certain...

... fragmentation, and the predicted configurations for the liquid column agreed well with the experimentally measured ones. It was also used to predict the behavior of liquid films at the outlet of a fuel injector used for automobile engines. The particle method in the simulation was mainly used for liquid films...

...-dimensional effects are also discussed. 05 05 2004 03 09 2005 electrohydrodynamics liquid films film flow flow instability flow visualisation fluorescence An electrostatic liquid film radiator (ELFR) has been proposed as a very lightweight radiator for rejecting waste heat...

... the flow is in the supercritical state, are obtained for the different flow parameters. 17 06 2004 04 07 2005 liquid films non-Newtonian fluids non-Newtonian flow rotational flow film flow shock wave effects flow simulation numerical analysis 1 The leading order...

...Timothy A. Shedd; Ty A. Newell A unique set of liquid film thickness and pressure drop data has been obtained for horizontal, annular flow of air and water through round, square and triangular tube using a noninvasive, optical liquid film thickness measurement system. In the square and triangular...

... of gas liquid flows. The first paper of this group by Podowski and Kumbaro addresses theoretically both stationary and moving liquid films on inclined solid surfaces from vertical to horizontal. The authors develop analytical expressions for the distribution of the thin liquid film thickness on inclined...

...Michael Z. Podowski, Professor; Anela Kumbaro, Research Engineer This paper is concerned with the analysis of thin and ultra-thin liquid films. The results are applicable to various geometrical and kinematic conditions, including both stationary and moving surfaces. The new results obtained...

... flow structure; notably, increasing pressure appears to thin the wall-bounded liquid films and redistribute liquid toward the edges of the test section. This general trend is also manifested in the distributions of mean droplet diameter and interfacial area density, which are inferred from local...