Results obtained within the MULTIFLOW network

Joint papers

Submitted

Experimental study of dispersion and miscible viscous fingering of initially circular samples in Hele-Shaw cells
R. Maes, G. Rousseaux, B. Scheid, M. Mishra, P. Colinet and A. De Wit

Falling film flows: From the pioneering work of P. Kapitza to recent advances
S. Kalliadasis, C. Ruyer-Quil, B. Scheid and M. G. Velarde

Self-ratcheting Stokes drops driven by oblique vibrations
K. John and U. Thiele,
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/arxiv:0907.1223

Determination of the surface and composition profiles for a film of binary mixture on a solid substrate
L. Frastia, U. Thiele and L. M. Pismen

Film Flows, Wave Instabilities and Thermocapillarity
S. Kalliadasis, C. Ruyer-Quil, B. Scheid and M. G. Velarde

Why do aqueous surfactant solutions spread over hydrophobic substrates?
V.M Starov, N. Ivanova, R.G. Rubio

Equilibrium and dynamic surface properties of trisiloxane aqueous solutions. Part 1. Experimental results
H.Ritacco, F. Ortega, R.G. Rubio, N. Ivanova, V.M. Starov

Equilibrium and dynamic surface properties of trisiloxane aqueous solutions. Part 2. Theory and comparison with experiment
H.Ritacco, V.B. Fainerman, F. Ortega, R.G. Rubio, N. Ivanova, V.M. Starov

Surface-viscosity-dominated thickening in liquid film coating
B. Scheid, J. Delacotte, B. Dollet, E. Rio, F. Restagno, E.A. van Nierop, I. Cantat, D. Langevin and H.A. Stone

2010

Critical wetting concentrations of trisiloxane surfactants
N. Ivanova, V. Starov, R.G. Rubio, H. Ritacco, N. Hilal, D. Johnson
Colloids & Surfaces A 354, 143-148, (2010). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2009.07.030

2009

Liquid film coating a fiber as a model system for the formation of bound states in active dispersive-dissipative nonlinear media.
C. Duprat, F. Giorgiutti-Dauphine, D. Tseluiko, S. Saprykin and S. Kalliadasis
Phys. Rev. Lett., 103 234501 (2009)

Solitary pulse interaction theory for the generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.
D. Tseluiko, S. Saprykin, C. Duprat, F. Giorgiutti-Dauphine and S. Kalliadasis
Physica D. (2009)

Spreading of aqueous solutions of trisiloxanes and conventional surfactants over PTFE AF coated silicone wafers.
N. Ivanova, V. Starov, D. Johnson, N. Hilal, R.G. Rubio
Langmuir 25, 3564-3570 (2009).

Surface forces and wetting phenomena
V.M. Starov, M.G. Velarde
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 464121 (2009), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/21/46/464121

Invited conference presentations

2009

A. De Wit (ULB-NLPC)
talk
International Conference on Turbulence, Dec 2009
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)

U. Thiele (LU-MS)
talk
EUROMECH Colloquium 497 - Recent Developments and New Directions in Thin-Film Flow, 6 - 9 July 2009
Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK)

U. Thiele (LU-MS)
6 lectures
Summer school on Multiphase Microfluidics - The Diffuse Interface Model, 15 - 19 June 2009
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine (Italy)

A.J. Archer (LU-MS)
talk
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009, 7 - 9 April 2009
Nottingham (UK)

S. Kalliadasis (Imperial)
presentation "Influence of Spatial Heterogeneities on Contact Line Dynamics"
Euromech Colloquium, "Recent Developments and New Directions in Thin-Film Flow", 2009
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh (UK)

A. Pereira, A. Malijevsky and S. Kalliadasis (Imperial)
presentation "Equilibrium Liquid-Gas Interface of a Fluid on a Substrate"
Mini-symposium on "Approaches to Nanofluidics", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 2009
University of Nottingham (UK)

M. Müller (UGOE)
talk
MESOSOFT workshop, March 19 2009
Jülich (Germany)

M. Müller (UGOE)
talk
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, April 7 2009
Nottingham (UK)

A. Oron (Technion)
talk
EUROMECH Colloquium 497 - Recent Developments and New Directions in Thin-Film Flow, 6 - 9 July 2009
Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK)

A. Oron (Technion)
plenary talk
11th National Congress of Bulgaria on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2-5 September 2009
Borovets (Bulgaria)

L.M. Pismen (Technion)
presentation "Resolving the Contact line singularity"
workshop on Ablation and Capillarity, May 2009
Peyresq (France)

L.M. Pismen (Technion)
presentation "A Chain of Approximations in Diffuse Interface Theory"
CISM school "Multiphase Microfluidics - The Diffuse Interface Model", June 2009
Udine (Italy)

L.M. Pismen (Technion)
presentation "Nonlocality trumps coarsening: non-equilibrium phase transition in a surfactant film"
workshop "Non-local Phenomena in Pattern-Forming Systems", June 2009
Haifa (Israel)

L.M. Pismen (Technion)
presentation "Chemo-capillary instabilities of a contact line"
workshop "Contact Line Instabilities", Jan 2010
Leiden (Netherlands)

Related recent pre-MULTIFLOW publications of the involved groups

Film flow on a porous substrate
U. Thiele, B. Goyeau and M. G. Velarde,
Phys. Fluids, 21, 014103 (2009). doi: 10.1063/1.3054157

Front instabilities in evaporatively dewetting nanofluids
I. Vancea, U. Thiele, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt and P. Moriarty,
Phys. Rev. E 78, 041601 (2008). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041601

Fingering instabilities in dewetting nanofluids
E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, I. Notingher, P. Moriarty, I. Vancea and U. Thiele,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176102 (2008). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.176102

Ratchet-induced fluid transport in bounded two layer films of immiscible liquids
K. John, P. Hänggi and U. Thiele,
Soft Matter 4, 1183-1195 (2008). doi:10.1039/b718850aDecomposition driven interface evolution for layers of binary mixtures: I. Model derivation and stratified base states
U. Thiele, S. Madruga and L. Frastia,
Phys. Fluids 19, 122106 (2007). doi:10.1063/1.2824404

Dynamics of a horizontal thin liquid film in the presence of reactive surfactants
A. Pereira and P. M. J. Trevelyan and U. Thiele and S. Kalliadasis,
Phys. Fluids 19, 112102 (2007). doi:10.1063/1.2775938

Driven drops on heterogeneous substrates: Onset of sliding motion
Uwe Thiele and Edgar Knobloch,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 204501 (2006). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.204501

Stability and nonlinear dynamics of solitary waves generated by subcritical oscillatory instability under the action of feedback control
Y. Kanevsky and A.A. Nepomnyashchy,
Phys. Rev. E, 76, 066305 (2007).

Marangoni instability in ultra-thin two-layer films
A.A. Nepomnyashchy and I.B. Simanovskii,
Phys. Fluids, 19 , 122103 (2007).

Oscillatory instability in super-diffusive reaction-diffusion systems: fractional amplitude and phase-diffusion equations
Y. Nec, A.A. Nepomnyashchy and A.A. Golovin,
Europhys. Lett., 82 , 58003 (2008).

Front-type solutions of fractional Allen-Cahn equation
Y. Nec, A.A. Nepomnyashchy and A.A. Golovin,
Physica D, 237 , 3237 (2008).

Stability of a two-layer binary-fluid system with a diffuse interface
O.A. Frolovskaya, A.A. Nepomnyashchy, A. Oron and A.A. Golovin,
Phys. Fluids, 20, 112105 (2008).

Suppression of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of thin liquid films by the Marangoni effect
A. Alexeev and A. Oron,
Phys. Fluids, 19, 082101 (2007).

Weighted-residual integral boundary-layer model for the nonlinear dynamics of thin liquid films falling on an undulating vertical wall
A. Oron and C. Heining,
Phys. Fluids, 20, 082102 (2008).

Weighted-residual integral boundary-layer model of temporally excited falling liquid films
A. Oron, O. Gottlieb and E. Novbari,
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, 28, 37 (2009).

Capillary rise of a meniscus with phase change
G. Ramon and A. Oron,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 327, 145 (2008).

Dynamics of thin liquid films falling on vertical cylindrical surfaces subjected to ultrasound forcing
L. Moldavsky, M. Fichman and A. Oron,
Physical Review E, 76, 045301 (2007).

Non-linear resonance in viscous films on inclined wavy planes
Heinig, V. Bontozoglou, N. Aksel and A. Wierschem,
Intl. J. Multiphase Flow, 35, 78-90 (2008).

Falling film flow along steep two-dimensional topography: The effect of inertia
V. Bontozoglou and K. Serifi,
Intl. J. Multiphase Flow, 34, 734-747 (2008).

Solitary waves on inclined films: Their characteristics and the effects on wall shear stress
J. Tihon, K. Serifi, K. Argyriadi and V. Bontozoglou,
Exp. Fluids, 41, 79-89 (2006).

Experimental study of inclined film flow along periodic corrugations: The effect of wall steepness
K. Argyriadi, M. Vlachogiannis and V. Bontozoglou,
Phys. Fluids, 18, 012102 (2006).

Fingering of exothermic reaction diffusion fronts in Hele-Shaw cells with conducting walls
J. D'Hernoncourt, S. Kalliadasis and A. De Wit,
J. Chem. Phys., 123, 234503 (2005).

Steady Marangoni flow traveling with a chemical front
L. Rongy and A. De Wit,
J. Chem. Phys., 124, 164705 (2006).

Dynamics of A+B -> C reaction fronts in the presence of buoyancy- driven convection
L. Rongy, P.M.J. Trevelyan and A. De Wit,
Phys. Rev. Letters, 101, 084503 (2008).

Differences in miscible viscous fingering of finite width slices with positive or negative log-mobility ratio
M. Mishra, M. Martin and A. De Wit,
Phys. Rev. E, 78, 066306 (2008).

Surface-tension-driven instabilities of a pure liquid layer evaporating into an inert gas
B. Haut and P. Colinet,
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 285, 296-305 (2005).

Validity domain of the Benney equation including the Marangoni effect for closed and open flows
B. Scheid, C. Ruyer-Quil, U. Thiele, O.A. Kabov, J.C. Legros and P. Colinet,
J. Fluid Mech., 527, 303-335 (2005).

Marangoni effect from density variations in apolar ultrathin films
H. Kaya, B. Jérôme and P. Colinet,
Europhys. Lett., 74, 861-867 (2006).

Some advances in lubrication-type theories
P. Colinet, H. Kaya, S. Rossomme and B. Scheid,
Eur. Phys. J. - Special Topics, 146, 377-389 (2007).

Chemo-hydrodynamic instability generated by CO2 absorption in an aqueous solution of NaHCO3 and NA2CO3
C. Wylock, S. Dehaeck, A. Rednikov and P. Colinet,
Microgravity Sci. Tech., 20, 171-175 (2008).

Spontaneous channeling of solitary pulses in heated film flows
B. Scheid, S. Kalliadasis, C. Ruyer-Quil and P. Colinet,
Europhys. Lett., 84, 64002 (2008).

Interaction of three-dimensional hydrodynamic and thermocapillary instabilities in film flows
B. Scheid, S. Kalliadasis, C. Ruyer-Quil and P. Colinet,
Phys. Rev. E, 78, 066311 (2008).

Interfacial patterns and waves in liquid layers and thin films
P. Colinet,
in Pattern Formation at Interfaces, Eds P. Colinet and A.A. Nepomnyashchy, CISM Series, Springer-Verlag (2009).