Scheichl, B; Bowles, RI; Pasias, G; (2018) Developed liquid film passing a trailing edge under the action of gravity and capillarity. Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 850 pp. 924-953. 10.1017/jfm.2018.464.

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Abstract

We consider the asymptotic structure of a steady developed viscous thin film passing the sharp trailing edge of a horizontally aligned flat plate under the weak action of gravity acting vertically and surface tension. The surprisingly rich details of the flow in the immediate vicinity of the trailing edge are elucidated both analytically and numerically. As a central innovation, we demonstrate how streamline curvature serves to regularise the edge singularity apparent on larger scales via generic viscous–inviscid interaction. This is shown to be provoked by weak disturbances of accordingly strong exponential downstream growth, which we trace from the virtual origin of the flow towards the trailing edge. They represent a prototype of the precursor to free interaction in the most general sense, which, interestingly, has not attracted due attention previously. Moreover, we delineate how an increased effect of gravity involves marginally choked flow at the edge.

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