Preliminary Program subject to change
01J04 Interfacial Flows I
OverviewThis session will focus on flows in which fluid interfaces play an essential role. Topics include the dynamics of thin liquid films and liquid bridges, motion of individual drops and bubbles, and the behavior of emulsions and foams.
Primary SponsorFluid Mechanics (01j)

Chair

Nivedita R. Gupta
University of New Hampshire
Department of Chemical Engineering
Durham, NH 03824
Phone Number: 603 862-3655
Email: ngupta@unh.edu

CoChair

Ali Borhan
Professor
Chemical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
122 Fenske Laboratory
Department of Chemical Engineering
University park, PA 16802
Phone Number: 814-865-7847
Fax Number: 814-865-7846
Email: borhan@psu.edu
Oscillations of Drops Covered with a Monolayer of Insoluble Surfacant
Qi Xu and Osman A. Basaran, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
Surfactant Effects on Drop Detachment
Fang Jin, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 and Kathleen J. Stebe, Chem. & Biomol. Eng., Johns Hopkins University, 221 Maryland Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218
The Effect of Surfactant and Surfactant Solubility on the Deformation and Breakup of a Bubble in a Viscous Surrounding
Michael Siegel1, Yuan Young2, Michael Booty2, Demetrios T. Papageorgiou2 and Jie Li3, (1)Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Departmental of Mathematical Sciences, Newark, NJ 07102, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Departmental of Mathematical Sciences, Newark, NJ 07102, (3)Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Elastic and Surfactant Effects on Bubbles Rising in a Rectangular Capillary
Vinod Bulusu, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 and Nivedita R. Gupta, University of New Hampshire, Department of Chemical Engineering, W313 Kingsbury Hall, 33 College Road, Durham, NH 03824
Spreading of Surfactant-Bearing Drops on a Solid Surface
Kit Yan Chan1, Srinath Madasu2 and Ali Borhan2, (1)Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, (2)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, University Park, PA 16802
Coalescence of Spreading Droplets on a Wettable Substrate
William D. Ristenpart, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 402 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, Peter McCalla, Department of Physics, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, R. Valery Roy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 126 Spencer Lab, Newark, DE 19716 and Howard A. Stone, Divison of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 402 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thin Film Drainage and Drop Dynamics in Concentrated Emulsions
Sukhvinder Kaur and L. Gary Leal, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Engineering 2, Rm 3357, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Drop Coalescence in the Presence of an External Flow
Michael Loewenberg1, Piero Santoro1, Martin Nemer2 and Xiaohui Chen3, (1)Chemical Engineering, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, PO box 208286, New Haven, CT 06520-8286, (2)Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, (3)Citicorp
Spontaneous Thermocapillary Interaction of Drops: the Effect of Surface Exothermic Reaction
Liat Bialik, Olga M. Lavrenteva and Avinoam Nir, Chemical Engineering, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
Buoyancy-Driven Motion and Deformation of Viscoelastic Drops
Hongfei Wu1, Hossein Haj-Hariri1 and Ali Borhan2, (1)University of Virginia, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Charlottesville, VA 22904, (2)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, University Park, PA 16802

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