ISSN:
1432-2250
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
Abstract Numerical simulations of the evolution equation [14] for thickness of a film flowing down a vertical fiber are presented. Solutions with periodic boundary conditions on extended axial intervals develop trains of pulse-like structures. Typically, a group of several interacting pulses (or a solitary pulse) is bracketed by spans of nearly uniform thinned film and is virtually isolated: The evolution of such a “section” is modeled as a solution with periodic boundary conditions on the corresponding, comparatively short, interval. Single-pulse sections are steady-shape traveling waveforms (“cells” of shorter-period solutions). The collision of two pulses can be either a particle-like “elastic” rebound, or—and only if a control parameter S (proportional to the average thickness) exceeds a certain critical value, S c ≈ 1—a “deeply inelastic” coalescence. A pulse which grows by a cascade of coalescences is associated with large drops observed in experiments by Quéré [39] and our S c is in excellent agreement with its laboratory value.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00417922
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