1. Wetting - by Timothée MOUTERDE
Basics of static wetting: Surface tension, wetting of ideal solids, static contact angle, meniscus shape and drops shapes, wetting of tubes, floating objects.
Interfacial dynamics: Capillary rise, spreading, Landau-Levich-Derjaguin’s law, Marangoni flows (thermal and chemical).
Interfacial dynamics and instabilities: Dynamic contact angle, Rayleigh-Taylor, Plateau-Rayleigh, Dewetting (Taylor-Culick).
Wetting of real surfaces: Contact angle hysteresis, wetting of microtextured solids, Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter states, superhydrophobic and liquid-infused surfaces. Drops’ dynamics on non-wetting surfaces.
2. Stokes Flow - by Timothée MOUTERDE
Dimensional analysis, Kinematic reversibility, Stokes flows.
Flow around a particle and droplet, Reynolds equation for hydrodynamic lubrication.
3. Micro/Nanofluidics and Colloid Science - by Wei-Lun HSU
History of micro/nanofluidics, electrokinetic phenomena.
Electrostatics, electric double layer, Poisson-Boltzmann equation Gouy-Chapman-Stern-Grahame model.
Electroosmosis in a slit channel, electroosmosis in a cylindrical tube, nonlinear electroosmosis in a short channel.
Electrophoresis (Smolchowski and Hückel equations), dielectrophoresis, Brownian motion.
DLVO theory, non-Newtonian fluids, viscometers, viscoelastic flow behavior.
4. Two-Phase Flow - by Wei-Lun HSU
Clausius-Clapeyron relation, cavitation, homo/heterogeneous bubble nucleation, Rayleigh-Plesset equation, stability of bubbles.
Pool boiling, boiling curve, critical heat flux, Kelvin Helmholtz instability, Taylor Rayleigh instability.
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