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The Fate of Thin Liquid Films after Coating

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Liquid Film Coating

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The fate of liquid films is determined by their state following application, and their environment. In most coating operations the region of film application is spatially separated from that following application. Exceptions do exist in operations such as spin coating where application, leveling, and drying all occur simultaneously as is described in Chapter 14. Phenomena of importance after application are caused by a largely different set of mechanisms than do those of importance in coating application, which is the primary emphasis of this book. During application, the liquid is often severely deformed through a complex geometry and the resulting fluid mechanics often requires sophisticated computational methods to analyze. After application liquid films are usually, and often desirably, of uniform thickness - a simple geometry; the film, however, is composed of material of increasingly complex properties as the film is set and dried.

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Kheshgi, H.S. (1997). The Fate of Thin Liquid Films after Coating. In: Kistler, S.F., Schweizer, P.M. (eds) Liquid Film Coating. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5342-3_6

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