Tom Witelski, Duke University, Dynamics of non-conservative fluid thin films
SAS 4201The behavior of thin layers of viscous fluids coating solid surfaces is of importance in many industrial and natural applications. Interfacial instabilities and pattern formation can occur in films on water-repellent (also called hydrophobic or partially wetting) surfaces. Lubrication models asymptotically reduce the governing equations for the free-surface flow to a fourth-order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation for the evolution…