Liquid Films Theory, Experiments and Industrial Applications (cancelled)
Invited Lecturers
- Steven Abbott (Autotype International Limited, Wantage, Oxon, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Introduction to industrial applications; Dip coating; Spin coating; Slot coating, Slide coating; Defects coating.- Nuri Aksel (University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany)
5 lectures on:
Balance equations, constitutive equations and boundary conditions; Side-wall effects on film flows; Films on weakly wavy bottoms; Films on strongly wavy bottoms; Inertial effects on film flow.- Jacques Meunier (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Cedex 05, France)
6 lectures on:
Viscous fingering in porous media and Hele Shaw cell; Non-Newtonian fluids; Viscous fingering in shear-thinning-fluids; Viscous fingering in elastic fluids; Viscous fingering in gels; Viscous fingering in surfactant solutions.- Alexander Oron (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
6 lectures on:
Spreading; long-wave instability; Numerical methods for nonlinear evolution equations; Dewetting; Evaporation, condensation.- David Quere' (Lab. Phys. de la Matiere Cond, Paris Cedex 05, France)
6 lectures on:
Capillarity; Spreading; Rising liquids; Heterogeneous interfaces; Interfaces in motion; Fluid coating.- Stephen K. Wilson (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Lubrication; Films on horizontal cylinders; Rivulet flow; Dry patches; Films with two interfaces; Novel applications.