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We hypothesize that combining extreme turbulence with a minute reduction in surface tension $\sigma$ (surface tension of the liquid) using surfactant provides a simple and scalable route for controlling micron scale bubble size in…
Interface-resolved direct numerical simulations are performed to examine the combined effects of soluble surfactant and viscoelasticity on the structure of a bubbly turbulent channel flow. The incompressible flow equations are solved fully…
Falling liquid films are complex physical processes modelled by infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. The interfacial behaviour is characterised by the Reynolds number, a nondimensional parameter, and above a critical value the uniform…
A new protocol for linearization of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is proposed and the resultant electrostatic equation coincides formally with the Debye-Huckel equation, the solution of which is well known for many electrostatic problems.…
We consider the flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid through a thin porous medium of height $h_\varepsilon$ perforated with $\varepsilon$-periodically distributed solid cylinders of very small diameter $\varepsilon\delta_\varepsilon$,…
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We study a nonlocal variant of a thermodynamically consistent phase field model for binary mixtures of micropolar fluids, i.e., fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model is described by a Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system that…
In this paper we revisit the derivation of a nonlocal interfacial Hamiltonian model for systems with short-ranged intermolecular forces. Starting from a microscopic Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Hamiltonian with a double parabola potential, we…
A self-consistent theory for the classical description of the interaction of light and matter at the nano-scale is presented, which takes into account spatial dispersion. Up to now, the Maxwell equations in nanostructured materials with…
A variational theory is developed to study electrolyte solutions, composed of interacting point-like ions in a solvent, in the presence of dielectric discontinuities and charges at the boundaries. Three important and non-linear…
Local pressures are important in the calculation of interface tensions and in analyzing micromechanical behavior. The calculation of local pressures in computer simulations has been limited to systems with pairwise interactions between the…
We analyze the surface tension exerted at the interface between an active fluid and a solid boundary in terms of tangential forces. Focusing on active systems known to possess an equation of state for the pressure, we show that interfacial…
We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…
We study free boundary compressible viscous models that may include nonlinear viscosities. These are compressible/incompressible Navier-Stokes type systems for a non-Newtonian stress tensor. They describe the motion of a possibly…
This work focuses on the interfacial dynamics with interfacial mass flux in the presence of acceleration and surface tension. We employ the general matrix method to find the fundamental solutions for the linearized boundary value problem…
Within the coexistence region between liquid and vapor the equilibrium pressure of a simulated fluid exhibits characteristic jumps and plateaus when plotted as a function of density at constant temperature. These features exclusively…
The hydrodynamic stability behaviour of a two-layer falling film is explored with a floating flexible plate on the top surface. The stress balance at the surface is modeled using a modified membrane equation. There is an insoluble…
The derivation of shallow water models from Navier-Stokes equations is revisited yielding a class of two-layer shallow water models.An improved velocity profile is proposed, based on the superposition of an ideal fluid and a viscous layer…
In this work, a mathematical model based on interface energy is proposed within the framework of surface continuum mechanics to study the dynamics of encapsulated bubbles. The interface model naturally induces a residual stress field into…