Drops on Polymer Brushes: Advances in Thin-Film Modeling of Adaptive Substrates

S Hartmann, J Diekmann, D Greve, U Thiele - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
We briefly review recent advances in the hydrodynamic modeling of the dynamics of
droplets on adaptive substrates, in particular, solids that are covered by polymer brushes …

Patterned deposition at moving contact lines

U Thiele - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2014 - Elsevier
When a simple or complex liquid recedes from a smooth solid substrate it often leaves a
homogeneous or structured deposit behind. In the case of a receding non-volatile pure …

Numerical bifurcation methods and their application to fluid dynamics: analysis beyond simulation

HA Dijkstra, FW Wubs, AK Cliffe, E Doedel… - Communications in …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We provide an overview of current techniques and typical applications of numerical
bifurcation analysis in fluid dynamical problems. Many of these problems are characterized …

[BOOK][B] Interfacial convection in multilayer systems

A Nepomnyashchy, JC Legros, I Simanovskii - 2006 - Springer
The interfacial convection in multilayer systems is a widespread phenomenon that is of great
importance in numerous branches of technology, including chemical engineering, space …

Sessile drop evaporation in a gap–crossover between diffusion-limited and phase transition-limited regime

S Hartmann, C Diddens, M Jalaal… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We consider the time evolution of a sessile drop of volatile partially wetting liquid on a rigid
solid substrate. The drop evaporates under strong confinement, namely, it sits on one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Nonequilibrium configurations of swelling polymer brush layers induced by spreading drops of weakly volatile oil

Ö Kap, S Hartmann, H Hoek, S de Beer… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Polymer brush layers are responsive materials that swell in contact with good solvents and
their vapors. We deposit drops of an almost completely wetting volatile oil onto an oleophilic …

Recent advances in and future challenges for mesoscopic hydrodynamic modelling of complex wetting

U Thiele - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We highlight some recent developments that widen the scope and reach of mesoscopic thin-
film (or long-wave) hydrodynamic models employed to describe the dynamics of thin films …

Gradient-dynamics model for liquid drops on elastic substrates

C Henkel, JH Snoeijer, U Thiele - Soft matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The wetting of soft elastic substrates exhibits many features that have no counterpart on rigid
surfaces. Modelling the detailed elastocapillary interactions is challenging, and has so far …

Localized states in the conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation with cubic nonlinearity

U Thiele, AJ Archer, MJ Robbins, H Gomez… - Physical Review E …, 2013 - APS
The conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation with cubic nonlinearity provides the simplest
microscopic description of the thermodynamic transition from a fluid state to a crystalline …

Stick-slip dynamics in the forced wetting of polymer brushes

D Greve, S Hartmann, U Thiele - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the static and dynamic wetting of adaptive substrates using a mesoscopic
hydrodynamic model for a liquid droplet on a solid substrate covered by a polymer brush …