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Velocity field in the initial section of a film flow

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The velocity field in the initial section of gravitational film flows has been investigated analytically and experimentally, and a relationship has been obtained for calculating the length of this section.

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  1. Kiev Polytechnic Institute, USSR

    E. G. Vorontsov & Yu. M. Gandzyuk

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 913–917, June, 1986.

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Vorontsov, E.G., Gandzyuk, Y.M. Velocity field in the initial section of a film flow. Journal of Engineering Physics 50, 636–640 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871530

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