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Fluid Dynamics Seminar

Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, 4:00 PM
Cullimore, Room 611
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Sheets, rivulets, ridges and dry patches

Stephen K. Wilson

Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Abstract

There are many practical situations in which thin sheets (both with and without dry patches), rivulets and/or ridges of fluid experience the effect of various external air flows. In this talk I will use a variety of asymptotic and numerical methods to describe some of the possible flows which can occur, and consider some aspects of their stability using both linear stability and/or energy methods.