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Instability of a film of viscous liquid under the influence of an adjacent gas flow

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A study is made of the instability of a film of viscous liquid adjacent to a gas flow. Despite a number of investigations, there is no unified theory of this problem capable of explaining the experimental results of different authors. The present paper gives a solution of the problem that is valid for a large class of flows of liquid films in the case of laminar and turbulent flow of the gas.

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    Chan Van Chan & V. Ya. Shkadov

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 28–36, March–April, 1979.

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Van Chan, C., Shkadov, V.Y. Instability of a film of viscous liquid under the influence of an adjacent gas flow. Fluid Dyn 14, 190–197 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01051659

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