Film Instabilities

Presentations

• Nonlinear stability analysis of a thin-melt film on its crystalline phase

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 3:10 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 3:23 PM

  Authors

  • Lucien Brush

    • University of Washington

  • Stephen Davis

    • Northwestern University

  • Michael Beerman

    • Andrews Space

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• Mechanism Leading to Formation of Periodic Nanopillar Arrays in Confined Ultrathin Polymer Films

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 3:23 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Sandra Troian

    • Dept of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

  • Mathias Dietzel

    • Dept of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

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• AC electrohydrodynamic instabilities in thin liquid films

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 3:36 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 3:49 PM

  Authors

  • Scott Roberts

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

  • Satish Kumar

    • Dept of Chemical Engineering \& Materials Science, University of Minnesota
    • University of Minnesota
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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• Instability of Free Films with Plateau Borders

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 3:49 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 4:02 PM

  Authors

  • Anthony Anderson

    • Northwestern University

  • Lucien Brush

    • University Washington

  • Stephen Davis

    • Northwestern University

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• Dynamics and line tension in thin nematic films

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 4:02 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 4:15 PM

  Authors

  • Ulysse Delabre

    • LPS, ENS

  • Celine Richard

    • LPS, ENS

  • Anne-Marie Cazabat

    • LPS, ENS

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• Impact of a vibration on the behavior of a dewetting thin film

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 4:15 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 4:28 PM

  Authors

  • Aleksey Alabuzhev

    • Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Perm, Russia

  • Sergey Shklyaev

    • Perm State University, Russia

  • Mikhail Khenner

    • State University of NewYork at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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• Regular non-coarsening surface patterns on evaporating heated films

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 4:28 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 4:41 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Bestehorn

    • Dep. Theor. Physics, BTU Cottbus, Germany

  • Merkt Domnic

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• Distinguishing viscosity and surface friction in quasi-2D flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 4:41 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Paul W. Fontana

  • Edward Titmus

    • Seattle University

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• Planar extensional motion of an inertially-driven liquid sheet

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 4:54 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 5:07 PM

  Authors

  • Linda Smolka

    • Bucknell University

  • Thomas Witelski

    • Duke University

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• Lateral shaping and stability of a stretching viscous sheet

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2008, 5:07 PM – Nov. 23, 2008, 5:20 PM

  Authors

  • Benoit Scheid

    • Harvard University - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    • Harvard University

  • Sara Quiligotti

    • Saint-Gobain Recherche

  • Binh Tran

    • Saint-Gobain Recherche

  • Howard A. Stone

    • Harvard University - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    • SEAS - Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ.
    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

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