Galerkin method to model thin free surface flows
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Author(s)
Lee. Sungyon
Advisor(s)
Anette Hosoi.
Date Issued
2007
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Viscoelastic thin films with free surface are important in industry as well as in nature. However, there does not exist a robust and systematic framework to analyze such films. Lubrication approximations, largely successful in studying thin generalized Newtonian fluid flows, have been employed to tackle this task but have met with only limited success. This particular work highlights the shortcomings of the lubrication analysis in this context and suggests an alternative in the form of a Galerkin-like projection method.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).
Subjects
Mechanical Engineering.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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