2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Interfacial Flows I

This session will focus on flows in which fluid interfaces play an essential role. Topics include the dynamics of thin liquid films and liquid bridges, motion of individual drops and bubbles, and the behavior of emulsions and foams.

Chair

Nivedita R. Gupta, University of New Hampshire

Co-Chair

Ali Borhan, Pennsylvania State University

Presentations

03:15 PM

(133a) Oscillations of Drops Covered with a Monolayer of Insoluble Surfacant
Qi Xu, Osman Basaran

03:30 PM

(133b) Surfactant Effects on Drop Detachment
Fang Jin, Kathleen J. Stebe

03:45 PM

(133c) The Effect of Surfactant and Surfactant Solubility on the Deformation and Breakup of a Bubble in a Viscous Surrounding
Michael Siegel, Teresa M. Young, Michael Booty, Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, Jie Li

04:00 PM

(133d) Elastic and Surfactant Effects on Bubbles Rising in a Rectangular Capillary
Vinod Bulusu, Nivedita R. Gupta

04:15 PM

(133e) Spreading of Surfactant-Bearing Drops on a Solid Surface
Kit Yan Chan, Srinath Madasu, Ali Borhan

04:30 PM

(133f) Coalescence of Spreading Droplets on a Wettable Substrate
William D. Ristenpart, Peter McCalla, R. Valery Roy, Howard A. Stone

04:45 PM

(133g) Thin Film Drainage and Drop Dynamics in Concentrated Emulsions
Sukhvinder Kaur, L. Gary Leal

05:00 PM

(133h) Drop Coalescence in the Presence of an External Flow
Michael Loewenberg, Piero Santoro, Martin B. Nemer, Xiaohui Chen

05:15 PM

(133i) Spontaneous Thermocapillary Interaction of Drops: the Effect of Surface Exothermic Reaction
Liat Bialik, Olga M. Lavrenteva, Avinoam Nir

05:30 PM

(133j) Buoyancy-Driven Motion and Deformation of Viscoelastic Drops
Hongfei Wu, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Ali Borhan