This paper reviews the past and recent studies on thermocapillarity in relation to
microfluidics. The role of thermocapillarity as the change of surface tension due to …

Natural systems are undeniably subject to random fluctuations, arising from either
environmental variability or thermal effects. The consideration of those fluctuations supposes …

A novel optical method is used both to probe and to control dynamics in experiments on the
spreading of microscale liquid films over solid substrates. The flow is manipulated by …

Film formation through the drying of polymer solutions is a widely used process in
laboratories and in many industrial applications such as coatings. One of the main goals of …

When UV–vis radiation interacts with matter, it can play as either a pump, or a developer, or
a signal. In this paper, we show that when UV–vis radiation interacts with very-far-from …

We describe a general methodology for introducing thorough chaotic mixing in
microdroplets. The mixing properties of fluid flows in microdroplets are governed by their …

Motivated by recent experiments, we study a rich variation of the familiar Rayleigh–Bénard
convection (RBC), where the temperature at the lower boundary varies sinusoidally about a …

The response of pattern forming systems to external forcing either spatial or temporal has
received much attention for several decades. Combined spatio-temporal forcing has only …

We report experiments on spatially forced inclined layer convection, where the combined
effect of the intrinsic symmetry breaking due to a gravity-induced shear flow and spatially …

We study a thin liquid film with a free surface on the underside of a cooled horizontal
substrate. We show that if the fluid is initially in equilibrium with its own vapor in the gas …