Gratton: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
Feb
11
Mon 4:00 PM
When Monday, February 11, 2008
Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where Tech M416
Contact Alvin Bayliss
847-491-7221
Group McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
Speaker: Michael Gratton, Duke University
Abstract: Coarsening is the phenomenon where many objects (water drops, molecular islands, particles in a freezing liquid) becomes a smaller number of objects in an orderly way. This talk will examine modeling one such system, tiny liquid drops, through three models: a partial differential equation for the fluid, a coarsening dynamical system for the drops, and an LSW-type ensemble model for the group of drops. We will study self-similarity in the dynamics and extensions of the model to examine very long times when drops grow large enough that gravity distorts their shape. This talk is part of the ESAM RTG seminar series.
Title: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
Speaker: Michael Gratton, Duke University
Abstract: Coarsening is the phenomenon where many objects (water drops, molecular islands, particles in a freezing liquid) becomes a smaller number of objects in an orderly way. This talk will examine modeling one such system, tiny liquid drops, through three models: a partial differential equation for the fluid, a coarsening dynamical system for the drops, and an LSW-type ensemble model for the group of drops. We will study self-similarity in the dynamics and extensions of the model to examine very long times when drops grow large enough that gravity distorts their shape. This talk is part of the ESAM RTG seminar series.
