Fingering instabilities in driven thin nematic films

DOI10.1063/1.1359748zbMath1184.76049OpenAlexW2066617573MaRDI QIDQ3555450

Martine Ben Amar, Linda J. Cummings

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1359748

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalswettingsurface tensionthin filmslubricationliquid films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin fluid films (76A20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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Cites Work

• Thin Films with High Surface Tension
• The lubrication approximation for thin viscous films: the moving contact line with a 'porous media' cut-off of van der Waals interactions
• Stability of Newtonian and viscoelastic dynamic contact lines

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