
The fact that normal ͑viscous and magnetic͒ stresses and
azimuthal magnetic field restrain fingering formation in
stretch flow may have important implications on the evalua-
tion of adhesiveness and peel-off forces of a given liquid
adhesive material. It has been recently shown ͓24͔, under
constant drive speed conditions and by neglecting effects of
fingering, that the net effect of an azimuthal magnetic field
would be to reduce adhesion. A natural extension of the cur-
rent work is to investigate the role of normal stresses, mag-
netic field, and fingering in possibly influencing the adhesion
properties of confined fluids both under constant load ͓13͔
and constant lifting velocity ͓18–21,25,26͔ circumstances.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank CNPq ͑Brazilian Research Council͒ for finan-
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Pronex program. J.A.M. thanks CNPq for financial support
͑PDE Proceeding No. 200045/2005-9͒. We acknowledge
useful discussions with Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle and Jaume
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