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A planar two-dimensional problem of the wetting of a dry heated vertical surface by a flowing liquid film was experimentally investigated. A model of the process was developed and the problem was numerically solved.
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Translated from Izhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 773–780, November, 1981.
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Ganchev, B.G., Bokov, A.E. Wetting of a hot vertical surface by a flowing liquid film. Journal of Engineering Physics 41, 1163–1168 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824910
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824910