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Thin liquid films are often encountered in a variety of applications: as gravity currents under water or as lava flows in geology; as tear films in the eye or as linings of human airways in biology. In engineering thin films are used to limit fluxes and to protect surfaces in heat and mass transfer processes.
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Oron, A., Bankoff, S.G. (1999). Regularization of Singularities in the Theory of Thin Liquid Films. In: Durban, D., Pearson, J.R.A. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Non-linear Singularities in Deformation and Flow. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4736-1_29
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