Colloquium November 10
Date: Friday November 10
Time: 16:00 to 17:00
Place: 455 McBryde (Commons Room)
Speaker: Dan Anderson of George Mason Univ
Title: Liquid Droplet Dynamics: Variations on a Theme
Abstract
Abstract: Free-boundary problems in fluid mechanics arise in many
scientific, industrial and everyday settings. The spreading of a liquid
droplet on a solid substrate is one such free-boundary problem that has
long-attracted the attention of fluid dynamics researchers and
applied mathematicians. In this talk, we shall describe this droplet
problem briefly but go on to consider variations of this problem in
which the droplet may undergo phase transformation or otherwise be
dramatically altered by other factors. In particular, we shall describe
the dynamics of evaporating droplets, freezing droplets, melting droplets
and droplets being imbibed into porous substrates, among others.
We shall present experimental results as well as mathematical models
developed to describe these problems.
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