The flow of a tubular film. Part 1. Formal mathematical representation
- 14 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 40 (01) , 1-19
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112070000010
Abstract
An expansion scheme is developed to describe the steady axisymmetric flow of a thin tubular liquid film of varying radius; the necessary small parameter is provided by the ratio between the characteristic film thickness and the characteristic tube radius. The co-ordinate system used is an orthogonal one based on the fluid interface and the fluid streamlines. The differential equations that arise thus treat the metric as an unknown set of variables. The method is restricted to situations dominated by viscous forces. Reference is made to numerical solutions that have been obtained in connexion with an industrial polymer-film-blowing process.Keywords
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