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Coating is used in numerous industrial applications. A coated layer should be very regular but also as thin as possible. Fingers are likely to form at the edge of the liquid and compromise the quality of the coating. The fluids involved during the process are also likely to display non-Newtonian properties. A standard model is presented for non-Newtonian fluid films and the formation of fingers is investigated. Preliminary results show that the wavenumber and growth rate of the fingers increase when the non-Newtonian properties of the liquid become stronger.
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Charpin, J.P.F. (2012). Finger Formation and Non-newtonian Fluids. In: Günther, M., Bartel, A., Brunk, M., Schöps, S., Striebel, M. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2010. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25100-9_52
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