Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films

A Oron, SH Davis, SG Bankoff - Reviews of modern physics, 1997 - APS
Macroscopic thin liquid films are entities that are important in biophysics, physics, and
engineering, as well as in natural settings. They can be composed of common liquids such …

Dynamics and stability of thin liquid films

RV Craster, OK Matar - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
The dynamics and stability of thin liquid films have fascinated scientists over many decades:
the observations of regular wave patterns in film flows down a windowpane or along …

A self-assembly pathway to aligned monodomain gels

S Zhang, MA Greenfield, A Mata, LC Palmer, R Bitton… - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
Aggregates of charged amphiphilic molecules have been found to access a structure at
elevated temperature that templates alignment of supramolecular fibrils over macroscopic …

Fingering phenomena associated with insoluble surfactant spreading on thin liquid films

MRE Warner, RV Craster, OK Matar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004 - cambridge.org
We study the linear and nonlinear stability of a thick surfactant deposition spreading on a
thin liquid film using transient growth analysis (TGA) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) …

Stokes-flow instability due to interfacial surfactant

AL Frenkel, D Halpern - Physics of Fluids, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The linear stability of a two-fluid shear flow with an insoluble surfactant on the flat interface is
investigated in the Stokes approximation. Gravity is neglected in order to isolate the …

The drainage of a foam lamella

CJW Breward, PD Howell - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002 - cambridge.org
We present a mathematical model for the drainage of a surfactant-stabilized foam lamella,
including capillary, Marangoni and viscous effects and allowing for diffusion, advection and …

A mathematical model for drying paint layers

SD Howison, JA Moriarty, JR Ockendon… - Journal of Engineering …, 1997 - Springer
Many industrial processes involve the coating of substrates with thin layers of paint. This
paper is concerned with modelling the variations in layer thickness which may occur as a …

Destabilization of a cree** flow by interfacial surfactant: linear theory extended to all wavenumbers

D Halpern, AL Frenkel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - cambridge.org
Cree** flow of a two-layer system with a monolayer of an insoluble surfactant on the
interface is considered. The linear-stability theory of plane Couette–Poiseuille flow is …

Enhanced instability in thin liquid films by improved compatibility

G Reiter, R Khanna, A Sharma - Physical review letters, 2000 - APS
We investigated experimentally the morphological evolution of thin polydimethylsiloxane
films sandwiched between a silicon wafer and different bounding liquids with interfacial …

The dynamics of a viscous soap film with soluble surfactant

JM Chomaz - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2001 - cambridge.org
Nearly two decades ago, Couder (1981) and Gharib & Derango (1989) used soap films to
perform classical hydrodynamics experiments on two-dimensional flows. Recently soap …