Elastocapillary dynamics: Pattern forming and the role of evaporation

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• Dominic Vella, University of Oxford
• Thursday 12 March 2015, 12:00-13:00
• Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Catherine Pearson.

And a brief abstract is: “The interaction between elasticity and surface tension, or elastocapillarity, is seen whenever hairy structures get wet. A common feature of this interaction is that clumps with a well-defined size emerge (as in a wet dog, a paintbrush or the eye-lashes of a crying toddler). The size of these clumps is traditionally understood as emerging from the equilibrium balance between surface tension and elasticity. I will talk about the dynamics of the aggregation process and show how this can give us new insight into the process.”

This talk is part of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF) series.

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