Nanoscale thin-film flows with thermal fluctuations and slip

Y Zhang, JE Sprittles, DA Lockerby - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
The combined effects of thermal fluctuations and liquid-solid slip on nanoscale thin-film
flows are investigated using stochastic lubrication equations (SLEs). The previous no-slip …

Spatial-temporal stability of an electrified viscoelastic liquid jet

Q Fu, L Yang, P Chen, Y Liu… - Journal of fluids …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents theoretically the spatial-temporal instability behavior of an electrified
viscoelastic liquid jet. Dimensionless parameters have been tested for their influence on the …

Micro-patterning of coatings on a fiber surface exploiting the contact instabilities of thin viscoelastic films

A Ghosh, D Bandyopadhyay, A Sharma - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Contact instabilities of a thin viscoelastic film on a curved surface have been explored with
the help of linear and nonlinear analyses. The governing equations and boundary …

Absolute and convective instabilities of a film flow down a vertical fiber subjected to a radial electric field

R Liu, X Chen, Z Ding - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We consider the motion of a gravity-driven flow down a vertical fiber subjected to a radial
electric field. This flow exhibits rich dynamics including the formation of droplets, or beads …

Electric-field-induced instabilities in thin liquid trilayers confined between patterned electrodes

PDS Reddy, D Bandyopadhyay… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Electric-field-induced instabilities of trilayer of immiscible thin films confined between both
planar and patterned electrodes have been explored by the linear stability analysis (LSA) …

Fabrication of micro-optical elements on curved substrates by electrostatic induced lithography

H Li, W Yu, T Wang, H Zhang, W Niu, E Abraham… - RSC …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reports the fabrication and characterization of polymeric micro-optical elements
on curved substrates using electrostatic induced lithography. Unlike previous studies …

Electric-field-induced interfacial instabilities of a soft elastic membrane confined between viscous layers

M Dey, D Bandyopadhyay, A Sharma, S Qian… - Physical Review E …, 2012 - APS
We explore the electric-field-induced interfacial instabilities of a trilayer composed of a thin
elastic film confined between two viscous layers. A linear stability analysis (LSA) is …

Nanoscale interfacial flows with thermal fluctuations and slip

Y Zhang - 2021 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
In this thesis, we present theoretical studies and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of
nanoscale interfacial flows taking the crucial effects of thermal fluctuations and slip into …

Numerical study of the faithful replication of micro/nanostructures on curved surfaces by the electrohydrodynamic instability process

H Li, W Yu, T Wang, Z Liu, MPY Desmulliez - Electrophoresis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports the numerical study of the one‐step faithful replication of micro/nano‐
scale structures on a fiber surface by using the electrohydrodynamic instability patterning …