| Abstract: | A study is made of the stability of nonisothermal flow of a film of viscous liquid down an inclined plane under the influence of gravity with allowance for dissipation of energy in the flow. It is assumed that the liquid is incompressible, and that its physical properties do not depend on the temperature. On the free surface of the film, allowance is made for evaporation and condensation effects. The treatment is in the long-wavelength approximation of the method proposed by Yih Chia-shun 1]. The expression obtained for the critical Reynolds number at which the flow becomes unstable indicates that viscous dissipation plays a destabilizing part in a nonisothermal flow.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 145–148, July–August, 1979. |
