Marangoni Flow Driven Instabilities and
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Vincent Adriaan Nierstrasz; Gert Frens
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Fingering instabilities in films moving along wetted surfaces, dimpling in horizontal liquid films, and the drainage of vertical soap films by marginal regeneration are caused by surface tension gradients along the perimeter of the thin film. These gradients lead to a mechanical instability which in