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L. B. Smolka and M. SeGall, Fingering instability down the outside of a vertical cylinder, Physics of Fluids, 23, 092103 (2011).

D. S. Fillebrown and L. B. Smolka (Sponsor), Numerical investigation of a Stokes model for flow down a fiber, SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, 3, 1-15 (2010).

L. B. Smolka and T. P. Witelski, Planar extensional motion of an inertially-driven liquid sheet, Proceedings of the 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, USNCTAM2010-1410, 1-2 (2010). 

L. B. Smolka and T. P. Witelski, On the planar extensional motion of an inertially-driven liquid sheet, Physics of Fluids, 21, 042101 (2009).  PDF file (934 KB)  Abstract

L.B. Smolka, J. North and B. K. Guerra, Dynamics of free surface perturbations along an annular viscous film, Physical Review E, 77, 036301 (2008).  PDF file (895 KB)  Abstract

L. B. Smolka and A. Belmonte, Charge screening effects on filament dynamics in xanthan gum solutions, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 137, 103-109 (2006).  PDF file (339 KB) Abstract

L. B. Smolka, B. Marts and A. L. Lin, Effect of inhomogeneities on spiral wave dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, Physical Review E, 72, 056205, (2005).    PDF file (290 KB) Abstract

L. B. Smolka, A. Belmonte, D. M. Henderson and T.P. Witelski, Exact solution for the extensional flow of a viscoelastic filament, European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 15, 679-712 (2004).   PDF file (439 KB) Abstract

L. B. Smolka and A. Belmonte, Drop pinch-off and filament dynamics of wormlike micellar fluids, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 115, 1-25 (2003).  PDF file (616 KB)   Abstract

D.M. Henderson, H. Segur, L. B. Smolka, and M. Wadati, The motion of a falling liquid filament, Physics of Fluids, 12, 550-565 (2000). PDF file (350 KB) Abstract

D.M. Henderson, W.G. Pritchard, and L. B. Smolka, On the pinch-off of a pendant drop of viscous fluid, Physics of Fluids, 9, 3188-3200 (1997).  PDF file (20 MB) Abstract


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