Kapitza number
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Kapitza number
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The Kapitza number (Ka) is a dimensionless number named after the prominent Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa. He provided the first extensive study of the ways in which a thin film of liquid flows down inclined surfaces. Expressed as the ratio of surface tension forces to inertial forces, the Kapitza number acts as an indicator of the hydrodynamic wave regime in falling liquid films. Liquid film behavior represents a subset of the more general class of free boundary problems. and is important in
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