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

S.B.G. O'Brien and M. Hayes

Department of Mathematics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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.