International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 29 (2002), Issue 6, Pages 313-324
doi:10.1155/S0161171202011614
A model for dip-coating of a two liquid mixture
Department of Mathematics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Received 24 January 2001; Revised 19 June 2001
Copyright © 2002 S. B. G. O'Brien and M. Hayes. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We consider a thin film flow where a flat substrate is coated
with a mixture of two miscible liquids, of equal viscosity, and
develop a model to predict the evolving coating thicknesses. The
developed model can, under certain circumstances, be used as an
approximation for the dip-coating of a liquid suspension of a
viscous volatile liquid and solid solute as occurs in many
industrial applications.