Interfaces for the 21st Century: New Research Directions in Fluid Mechanics and Materials Science : A Collection of Research Papers Dedicated to Steven H. Davis in Commemoration of hi

by Smith, Marc K.; Miksis, Michael J.; McFadden, Geoffrey B.; Neitzel, G. Paul; Canright, David R.; Davis, Stephen H.

• ISBN13: 9781860943195
• ISBN10: 1860943195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

This book highlights some recent advances in interfacial research in the fields of fluid mechanics and materials science at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an extension of the presentations made during the conference "Interfaces for the 21st Century," held on August 16?18, 1999, in Monterey, California. It includes papers by sixteen renowned experts in the field of interfacial mechanics, abstracts contributed by research scientists, and a summary of a panel discussion on future research directions. The book covers experimental and theoretical approaches, with the unifying philosophy being the investigation of new techniques for modeling the dynamics of interfaces. A number of new and exciting solution methods and experimental studies, as well as the physical problems that initiated them, are presented.

Table of Contents

Preface
The effect of a stabilising gradient on interface morphology	p. 3
Spreading of a liquid drop with mass loss	p. 21
Viscous gravity currents with solidification	p. 35
Coarsening dynamics of roll waves	p. 51
Thermocapillary control with feedback of large wavelength interfacial instabilities	p. 61
Pattern formation in thin liquid films	p. 73
Molecular aspects of contact-line dynamics	p. 89
Computational methods for advancing interfaces	p. 105
Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows	p. 121
A phase-field model with convection: numerical simulations	p. 131
Phase field model of multicomponent alloy solidification with hydrodynamics	p. 147
The effects of a stress-dependent mobility on interfacial stability	p. 167
Non-constant growth characteristics of pivalic acid dendrites in microgravity	p. 177
Interfaces on all scales during solidification and melting	p. 187
Phase and microstructure selection in peritectics	p. 203
Model phase diagrams for an FCC alloy	p. 213
Influence of contact-angle conditions on evolution of solidification fronts	p. 233
Creeping steady thin film on an inclined plane with an edge	p. 234
Phase-field simulation of convective effects on dendritic growth	p. 235
A model for a spreading and melting droplet on a heated substrate	p. 236
Instabilities of a three-dimensional liquid droplet on a heated solid surface	p. 237
A laboratory model for the solidification of the Earth's inner core and the inner core's seismic anisotropy	p. 239
Suppression of channel convection in solidifying Pb-Sn alloys via an applied magnetic field	p. 240
Dynamics and stability of Van-der-Waals-driven thin film rupture	p. 241
New approaches to front-tracking and front-capturing methods	p. 242
Manipulation of intravascular gas embolism dynamics with exogenous surfactants	p. 244
Adiabatic hypercooling of binary melts	p. 245
An insoluble surfactant model for a draining vertical liquid film	p. 246
The effect of time-periodic airway wall stretch on surfactant and liquid transport in the lung	p. 247
The dynamic effects of surfactants on stationary gas bubbles in liquid flows	p. 248
Buckling instabilities in thin viscous sheets	p. 249
Fluid-fluid interface experiments at the University of Chicago	p. 250
Asymptotic estimates for 2-D sloshing modes: theory and experiment	p. 251
Buoyancy-driven interactions of viscous drops with deforming interfaces	p. 252
Anomaly and uncertainty when liquid films flow over solid surfaces	p. 253
Flow behavior of Langmuir monolayers	p. 254
Soluble surfactants and contact-angle dynamics	p. 255
Experimental studies of the hydrodynamics near moving contact lines	p. 256
Axisymmetry-breaking instabilities in axisymmetric freezing of ice	p. 257
Separation mechanics of thin interfacial liquid layers: the role of viscous fingering	p. 258
Large finite-element modeling of axially symmetric free-surface flows	p. 259
Molecular simulations of interface phenomena: an alternative approach	p. 260
Experimental investigation of environment-oxygen content in solder-jet technology	p. 261
Droplet spreading with surfactant: modeling and simulation	p. 263
Air entrainment at low viscosities	p. 264
Numerical simulations of vibration-induced droplet ejection	p. 265
Interfacial dynamics associated with evaporation of LNG in a storage tank	p. 266
Oscillatory thermocapillary convection generated by a bubble	p. 267
About computations of thin-film flows	p. 268
Visualization of convection in liquid metals	p. 269
Time-evolving interfaces in viscous flows	p. 270
Influence of a nonlinear equation of state on contamination fronts at air/water interface	p. 271
Stabilization of an electrically conducting capillary bridge far beyond the Rayleigh-Plateau limit using feedback control of electrostatic stresses	p. 272
Stabilization of capillary bridges in air far beyond the Rayleigh-Plateau limit in low gravity using acoustic radiation pressure	p. 273
Interactions between Hele-Shaw flows and directional solidification: numerical simulations	p. 274
Modelling the contact region of an evaporating meniscus with a view to applications	p. 275
Aspects of vortex dynamics at a free surface	p. 277
Instabilities at the "interface" between miscible fluids - emergence of an effective surface tension	p. 279
Secondary instabilities of falling films using models	p. 280
Interfacial phenomena in suspensions	p. 282
Sessile drop solidification	p. 283
A homogenized Monte-Carlo model for film growth	p. 284
Influence of the surrounding conditions near the interface on the stability of liquid bridges	p. 285
Convective-diffusive lattice models of interfacial and wetting dynamics	p. 286
A level-set approach to domain growth in multicomponent fluids	p. 287
Morphological instability in strained alloy films	p. 288
Stability issues in spin-casting molten metals	p. 289
The stability of thermocapillary convection in half zones with deformed free-surface profiles	p. 291
Direct write of passive circuitry using ink-jet technology	p. 292
Stability of the meniscoid particle band at advancing interfaces in Hele-Shaw suspension flows	p. 293
Instabilities in thin fluid sheets	p. 295
Thermal effects of internal interfaces: equilibrium microstructure and kinetics	p. 296
The role of long-range forces in the stability of nematic films	p. 297
Vibration-induced drop atomization	p. 298
Capillarity-driven instabilities and the evolution of solid thin films	p. 300
Interfacial wave theory for dendrite growth	p. 301
Uniformly valid asymptotic solutions for dendrite growth with convection	p. 302
Comparison of asymptotic solutions of phase-field models to a sharp-interface model	p. 303
A new approach to measure the contact angle and the evaporation rate with flow visualization in a sessile drop	p. 304
New research directions in interfacial science	p. 307
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