https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2014-14030-5
Regular Article
Dynamics of falling liquid films
1
laboratoire FAST, UPMC Université Paris 06, Université Paris-Sud, bâtiment 502, F-91405, Orsay, France
2
laboratoire LOCIE, Savoie Technolac, Université de Savoie, 73376, Le Bourget du Lac Cedex, France
3
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
* e-mail: Christian.Ruyer-Quil@univ-savoie.fr
Received:
14
July
2013
Revised:
15
November
2013
Accepted:
6
December
2013
Published online:
25
April
2014
Falling liquid films are examples of open flows which undergo a sequence of supercritical instabilities giving way to a spatio-temporal weak disorder organized around interfacial waves in interaction. The long-wave nature of the waves and the laminar state of the flow enable to derive reduced sets of equations or models that are amenable to thorough analytic investigations. This paper reviews the phenomenology of falling film flows and discusses recent low-dimensional modeling attempts. Some open questions and perspectives are also considered.
Key words: Topical issue: Irreversible Dynamics: A topical issue dedicated to Paul Manneville
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