Speakers

6 lectures on: Fluid dynamics around pinned and moving contact lines. Viscous flows in corners. Moving contact line singularity for a spreading drop; the Voinov solution. Regularization and matched asymptotics. Dynamics of a thin film with a pinned conta

6 lectures on: Interfacial instabilities in thin liquid films. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, including the effect of inclination and curvature. Kapitza instabilities. Effects of non-uniform films due to rain or condensation.

6 lectures on: Differential geometry of surfaces. Kinematics of surface evolution. Surface energy and tension. Dimensional reduction. Application to thin film flows.

6 lectures on: Mass transfer phenomena in bubbles and drops. Henry’s law and the Epstein-Plesset equation for bubbles. Diffusion-driven droplet evaporation, including collective, transient and rheological effects. Applications in carbonated beverages, ge

6 lectures on: Viscously dominated flows involving suspended particles. Effects of shape – spheres, rods and filaments. Interactions between particles close to contact. Soft and rough particles.