Surface Films Compacted by Moving Water: Demarcation Lines Reveal Film Edges
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- 2 October 1970
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- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 170 (3953) , 61-64
Abstract
When water flows under the edge of a surface film the large viscous shear stress at the edge prevents the film from spreading and raises a ridge on the water surface. Near the top of its downstream flank the ridge has an abrupt change in curvature that we see as a line on the water.Keywords
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