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Gravity-driven thin film on an incline
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For a film of thickness
h
(
x
,
t
)
flowing down a plane inclined by
α
, lubrication theory gives the flux
q
=
3
μ
ρ
g
h
3
(
sin
α
−
cos
α
h
x
)
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when surface tension is neglected. Mass conservation gives the thin-film equation
h
t
+
q
x
=
0
.
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