Breaking of nonuniform liquid films and threads is analyzed by means of a simple equation of motion. The results are applied to the bursting film between two merging gas bubbles in a liquid, to growing holes in liquid films on solid surfaces, and to the pinching off of a liquid jet. Two of the results are compared with exact hydrodynamic calculations.
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Joseph B. Keller (1983) studied this question.
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