Analytical solutions to the gravity-driven rain-fed free-surface Stokes equations
The present paper concerns the continuously-fed, gravity-driven film flows of rainwater over hemispheres and semicircular cylinders. We extend previous lubrication results to arbitrarily thick films, while remaining in the creeping flow limit. We show that the predictions of uniform thickness profiles, amusingly, remain qualitatively accurate under these relaxed assumptions.
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Djambov, S., & Gallaire, F. (2026). Analytical solutions to the gravity-driven rain-fed free-surface Stokes equations. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 354(G1), 451–459. https://doi.org/10.5802/crmeca.365
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2026-05-04
354
G1
451
459
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EPFL