| Abstract: | An experimental study has been undertaken on the frequency of presented by the undulations occurring on the surface of a falling liquid film. The configuration of the film surface was observed by measuring the changes in the film thickness by means of a capacitometer. The flow regime was in the range of turbulent flow region, in which the undulations occur prominently and travel down along with the fluid film. The undulations proceed downward in an almost fixed pattern. The frequency of the passage of crests observed from a fixed point was evaluated from power spectral analysis to be about 20–30Hz, and this value changed very little with the Reynolds number and with heat flux applied to the falling liquid film. It is shown that this constancy of observed frequency is related to the fact that the large undulations move at the same velocity as the bulk of the fluid film, and that the speed of propagation is corresponding to a group velocity for ripples on the film surface. |
