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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S49520/02
Title:	Dynamics of free-surface thin film flows
Principal Investigator:	Kalliadasis, Professor S
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Department:	Chemical Engineering
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Advanced Fellowship (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 July 2004	Ends:	31 December 2008	Value (£):	227,855
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Fluid Dynamics
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing Chemicals Electronics Food and Drink Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Energy
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The proposed programme of work is a fundamental study of a collection of problems in the general area of free-surface thin film flows. The principal aim is to advance our understanding of these flows by considering two particular classes of problems in order of increasing complexity:(i) Free-surface thn film flows: hydrochemical waves due to the Marangoni effect and 3D complex spatio-temporal dynamics on a falling film.(ii) In the second and most ambitious stage of the fellowship we shall examine free-surface thin film flows which give rise to singularities (unlike the flows in (i)): dynamics of moving contact lines over heterogeneous substrates, the mesoscopic hydrodynamics of thin films and topological transitions.
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