Recent advances in and future challenges for mesoscopic hydrodynamic modelling of complex wetting

U Thiele - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We highlight some recent developments that widen the scope and reach of mesoscopic thin-
film (or long-wave) hydrodynamic models employed to describe the dynamics of thin films …

Continuation for thin film hydrodynamics and related scalar problems

S Engelnkemper, SV Gurevich, H Uecker… - … modelling of bifurcations …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter illustrates how to apply continuation techniques in the analysis of a particular
class of nonlinear kinetic equations that describe the time evolution of a single scalar field …

Film deposition and transition on a partially wetting plate in dip coating

P Gao, L Li, JJ Feng, H Ding, XY Lu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
We investigate the entrainment of liquid films on a partially wetting plate vertically withdrawn
from a reservoir of viscous liquid using a combination of diffuse-interface numerical …

Morphological transitions of sliding drops: Dynamics and bifurcations

S Engelnkemper, M Wilczek, SV Gurevich, U Thiele - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
We study fully three-dimensional droplets that slide down an incline by employing a thin-film
equation that accounts for capillarity, wettability, and a lateral driving force in small-gradient …

Modelling pattern formation in dip-coating experiments

M Wilczek, WBH Tewes, SV Gurevich… - … Modelling of Natural …, 2015 - mmnp-journal.org
We briefly review selected mathematical models that describe the dynamics of pattern
formation phenomena in dip-coating and Langmuir-Blodgett transfer experiments, where …

Bifurcation analysis of the behavior of partially wetting liquids on a rotating cylinder

TS Lin, S Rogers, D Tseluiko, U Thiele - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We discuss the behavior of partially wetting liquids on a rotating cylinder using a model that
takes into account the effects of gravity, viscosity, rotation, surface tension, and wettability …

Square waves and Bykov T-points in a delay algebraic model for the Kerr–Gires–Tournois interferometer

M Stöhr, ER Koch, J Javaloyes, SV Gurevich… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study theoretically the mechanisms of square wave formation of a vertically emitting
micro-cavity operated in the Gires–Tournois regime that contains a Kerr medium and that is …

Forced dewetting in a capillary tube

P Gao, A Liu, JJ Feng, H Ding, XY Lu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Liquid films can be entrained when the dewetting velocity attains a threshold, and this
dynamical wetting transition has been well studied in the situation of plane substrates. We …

Emergence of the bifurcation structure of a Langmuir–Blodgett transfer model

MH Köpf, U Thiele - Nonlinearity, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the bifurcation structure of a modified Cahn–Hilliard equation that describes a
system that may undergo a first-order phase transition and is kept permanently out of …

Two-dimensional patterns in dip coating-first steps on the continuation path

PMT Ly, KDJ Mitas, U Thiele, SV Gurevich - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a brief comparative investigation of the bifurcation structure related to the
formation of two-dimensional deposition patterns as described by continuum models of …