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Fluid Dynamics Seminar

Monday, Oct 12, 2009, 4:00 PM
Cullimore Lecture Hall, Room 611
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Numerical solution of problems with moving contact lines

Huaxiong Huang

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

Problems with moving contact lines are abundant in our daily life and in engineering applications. An example is a liquid drop in contact with a solid substrate that is driven by an applied electric field, a pressure gradient, or a surfactant re-distribution. In this talk, we will discuss several approaches to solve these types of problems, based on the Hele-Shaw and Navier-Stokes equations. Some of this work was done jointly with M.-C. Lai, Y.-H. Tseng, D. He, and Y. Tan.