The liquid wetting and dewetting of solids are ubiquitous phenomena that occur in everyday
life. Understanding the nature of these phenomena is beneficial for research and …

We investigate the influence of gold nanoparticle addition on the stability, dewetting, and
pattern formation in ultrathin polymer− nanoparticle (NP) composite films by examining the …

Thin-film flows of viscoelastic fluids are encountered in various industrial and biological
settings. The understanding of thin viscous film flows in Newtonian fluids is very well …

We show that the electric field driven surface instability of viscoelastic films has two distinct
regimes:(1) The viscoelastic films behaving like a liquid display long wavelengths governed …

A general unified theory of field (van der Waals, electric, etc.)-induced surface instabilities in
thin viscoelastic films that accounts for a destabilizing field and stabilizing effects of elastic …

We report the temporal and spatiotemporal stability analyses of antisymmetric, free shear,
viscoelastic flows obeying the Oldroyd-B constitutive equation in the limit of low to moderate …

We study the surface instability of a confined viscoelastic liquid film under the influence of an
applied electric field using the Maxwell and Jeffreys models for the liquid. It was shown …

Yield stress fluids are routinely fluidised for use in several industries. However, the
mechanics of fluidisation of such materials due to external forcing remains poorly …

The lungs consist of a network of bifurcating airways that are lined with a thin liquid film. This
film is a bilayer consisting of a mucus layer on top of a periciliary fluid layer. Mucus is a non …

We analyze transient dynamics during the shear start-up in viscoelastic flows between two
parallel plates, with a specific focus on the signatures for the onset of transient shear …