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The problem of coating steel by passing it through a molten alloy and then stripping off excess coating using an air jet is considered. The work revisits the analysis of Tuck (Phys Fluids 26:2352, 1983) with the addition of extra shear terms and a consideration of the effect of increased air-jet speeds. A first-order partial differential equation is derived and solved both to obtain the steady-state coating shape and to determine the evolution of any defects that may form.
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Hocking, G.C., Sweatman, W.L., Fitt, A.D. et al. Deformations during jet-stripping in the galvanizing process. J Eng Math 70, 297–306 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-010-9394-8
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