Thin Films, Spring 2004

• Friday, January 16, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Organizational Meeting

• Friday, January 23, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Stability analysis of convection in a porous medium, following text by A.C. Fowler, Mathematical Models in Applied Science (Chapter 14).

• Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Linear stability analysis of convection in a porous medium, following text by A.C. Fowler, Mathematical Models in Applied Science (Chapter 14).

• Friday, February 6, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Nonlinear stability analysis of convection in a porous medium, following text by A.C. Fowler, Mathematical Models in Applied Science (Chapter 14).

• Friday, February 13, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Porous media with Bob Behringer discussing convection of a binary mixture.

• Friday, February 20, 2004, 2:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Porous media with Bob Behringer discussing convection of a binary mixture.

• Friday, February 27, 2004, 12:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Open Discussion on numerical methods for problems in fluid dynamics.

• Friday, March 19, 2004, 12:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Group reading: M. Vignes-Adler, 'Physico-Chemical Aspects of Forced Wetting', from Drop Surface Intereractions, Springer

• Friday, March 26, 2004, 12:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Group Reading: Nature Materials 2, 221-227 (2003) Slippery questions about complex fluids flowing past solids STEVE GRANICK, YINGXI ZHU and HYUNJUNG LEE Nature Materials 2, 301-306 (2003) Self-cleaning surfaces -- virtual realities RALF BLOSSEY

• Friday, April 2, 2004, 12:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Group reading: M. Vignes-Adler, 'Physico-Chemical Aspects of Forced Wetting', from Drop Surface Intereractions, Springer

• Friday, April 9, 2004, 12:00pm, Thin Films Seminar
  

  Group reading: A simple derivation of the time-dependent convective-diffusion equation for surfactant transport along a deforming interface H. A. Stone Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics -- January 1990 -- Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 111-112