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Thin Liquid Films

Thin Liquid Films is a singular academic construct denoting a quasi-two-dimensional fluid layer of molecular to micrometric thickness that forms at gas-liquid or solid-liquid interfaces, distinguished from bulk liquid phenomena by its pronounced interfacial forces, strong curvature effects, and dominance of surface tension, disjoining pressure, and wetting dynamics in governing stability, drainage, and rupture behaviors.

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Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films

Alexander Oron, Stephen H. Davis, S. G. Bankoff · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1997 · 2.9K citations

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Insoluble monolayers at liquid-gas interfaces

Jerome Daen · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · 1966 · 2.6K citations

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DROP IMPACT DYNAMICS: Splashing, Spreading, Receding, Bouncing…

Alexander L. Yarin · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2005 · 2.6K citations

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Dynamics and stability of thin liquid films

Richard V. Craster, Omar K. Matar · Reviews of Modern Physics · 2009 · 1.4K citations

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Wave formation in laminar flow down an inclined plane

T. Brooke Benjamin · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1957 · 1K citations

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Authors

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  1. AS
    Ashutosh Sharma

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

    35 publications · 2.9K citations

    28

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  2. AO
    Alexander Oron

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    25 publications · 4K citations

    20

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  3. OK
    Omar K. Matar

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    24 publications · 2.5K citations

    20

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  4. UT
    Uwe Thiele

    University of Münster, Germany

    17 publications · 1.3K citations

    15

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  5. SK
    Serafim Kalliadasis

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 936 citations

    15

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    39 h-index

    265 publications

    12K citations

  2. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    32 h-index

    133 publications

    9.2K citations

  3. Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

    Sofia, Bulgaria

    30 h-index

    108 publications

    5.4K citations

  4. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    29 h-index

    98 publications

    11.8K citations

  5. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

    Kanpur, India

    28 h-index

    93 publications

    7.6K citations

  6. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    25 h-index

    70 publications

    13.9K citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    21 h-index

    117 publications

    4.7K citations

  8. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    21 h-index

    44 publications

    2.4K citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 76 publications · 7.2K citations

    50

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  2. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    94 publications · 6.9K citations

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  3. Physics of Fluids

    124 publications · 5K citations

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  4. Langmuir

    112 publications · 6.1K citations

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  5. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

    88 publications · 6.2K citations

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