The dynamics and stability of thin liquid films have fascinated scientists over many decades:
the observations of regular wave patterns in film flows down a windowpane or along …

Films whose water contact angle is higher than 150° have been the subject of great interest
and enthusiastic study in recent years. These films, which are called super-hydrophobic, are …

Evaporating liquid droplets are omnipresent in nature and technology, such as in inkjet
printing, coating, deposition of materials, medical diagnostics, agriculture, the food industry …

A nonmechanical pumping mechanism, thermocapillary pumping (TCP), is described for
moving nanoliter‐and picoliter‐sized drops of liquid within microfabricated flow channels. In …

We consider theoretically, computationally and experimentally spontaneous evaporation of
water and isopropanol drops on smooth silicon wafers. In contrast to a number of previous …

In many technological applications, excess solvent must be removed from liquid droplets to
deposit solutes onto substrates. Often, the substrates on which the droplets rest may …

In this paper, a model for spreading and sorption of a droplet on a thick porous substrate is
derived in the frame of lubrication theory. Flow in the saturated part of the porous material is …

The sharp-interface limits of a phase-field model with a generalized Navier slip boundary
condition for binary fluids with moving contact lines are studied by asymptotic analysis and …

A mathematical model is developed for fluid flow in the spin coating process. Spin coating
employs centrifugal force to produce coatings of uniform thickness. The long-wave or …

Thin liquid films are ubiquitous in nature and technology so an understanding of their
mechanics is important in many applications. A typical thin film flow consists of an expanse …