Numerical simulations of flows with moving contact lines

Y Sui, H Ding, PDM Spelt - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Computational methods have been extended recently to allow for the presence of moving
contact lines in simulated two-phase flows. The predictive capability offered by these …

Thermocapillary lubricant migration on textured surfaces-a review of theoretical and experimental insights

PG Grützmacher, SV Jalikop, C Gachot… - Surface Topography …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Thermocapillary migration in tribological systems such as gearboxes, piston ring-liner
assemblies, or bearings can lead to lubricant starvation and, consequently, to severe …

Droplet motion on inclined heterogeneous substrates

N Savva, S Kalliadasis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
We consider the static and dynamic behaviour of two-dimensional droplets on inclined
heterogeneous substrates. We utilize an evolution equation for the droplet thickness based …

A comparison of slip, disjoining pressure, and interface formation models for contact line motion through asymptotic analysis of thin two-dimensional droplet spreading

DN Sibley, A Nold, N Savva, S Kalliadasis - Journal of Engineering …, 2015 - Springer
The motion of a contact line is examined, and comparisons drawn, for a variety of models
proposed in the literature. Pressure and stress behaviours at the contact line are examined …

Spreading dynamics of an im**ing ferrofluid droplet on hydrophilic surfaces under uniform magnetic fields

MR Hassan, C Wang - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
This paper reports a numerical investigation on the spreading dynamics of an im**ing
ferrofluid droplet on solid hydrophilic surfaces (ie, θw≤ 60°) in the presence of uniform …

Stability and break-up of thin liquid films on patterned and structured surfaces

VS Ajaev, EY Gatapova, OA Kabov - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2016 - Elsevier
Solid surfaces with chemical patterning or topographical structure have attracted attention
due to many potential applications such as manufacture of flexible electronics, microfluidic …

[HTML][HTML] On the equilibrium contact angle of sessile liquid drops from molecular dynamics simulations

S Ravipati, B Aymard, S Kalliadasis… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new methodology to estimate the contact angles of sessile drops from
molecular simulations by using the Gaussian convolution method of Willard and Chandler [J …

The asymptotics of the moving contact line: cracking an old nut

DN Sibley, A Nold, S Kalliadasis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
For contact line motion where the full Stokes flow equations hold, full matched asymptotic
solutions using slip models have been obtained for droplet spreading and more general …

Slip or not slip? A methodical examination of the interface formation model using two-dimensional droplet spreading on a horizontal planar substrate as a prototype …

DN Sibley, N Savva, S Kalliadasis - Physics of Fluids, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Slip or not slip? A methodical examination of the interface formation model using two-dimensional
droplet spreading on a horizontal planar substrate as a prototype system | Physics of Fluids …

Biological applications of kinetics of wetting and spreading

G Ahmed, OA Tash, J Cook, A Trybala… - Advances in colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wetting and spreading kinetics of biological fluids has gained a substantial interest recently.
The importance of these fluids in our lives has driven the pace of publications. Globally …