Multiphase Microfluidics - The Diffuse Interface Model
Suggested readings
Van der Waals, J.D. 1893. The thermodynamic theory of capillarity under the hypothesis of a continuous variation of density [Translated by J.S. Rowlinson in Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 20, p. 200–244 (1979)].
Anderson, D.M.; McFadden, G.B.; Wheeler, A.A. 1998. Diffuse Interface Methods in Fluid Mechanics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Vol. 30, p. 139–165.
Pismen, L.M. 2006 Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics. Springer, New York.
Velarde, M.G.; Zeytourian, K.K. 2000 Interfacial Phenomena and the Marangoni Effect. Springer, New York.
Oron, A.; Davis, S.H.; Bankoff. S.G. 1997 Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films. Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 931–980.
Pismen, L.M.; Pomeau, T. 2000 Disjoining potential and spreading of thin liquid layers in the diffuse interface model coupled to hydrodynamics. Phys. Rev. E 62, 2480–2492.