2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Interfacial Flows II

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

08:30 AM

(192a) Hysteretic Rheological Response of a Highly Viscous Drop in Linear Flows with Rotation

Yuan-Nan Young, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Vittorio Cristini

08:45 AM

(192b) Finite-Amplitude Capillary Oscillations of Coupled Droplets

Eric A. Theisen, Michael J. Vogel, Paul H. Steen, Carlos A. Lopez, Amir H. Hirsa

09:00 AM

(192c) Instabilities and Saturation of Electrified Thin Liquid Films

Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, Dmitri Tseluiko

09:15 AM

(192d) A Multi-Scale Polymer Foam Model and Its Application

Deming Mao, Asjad Shafi, Albert Harvey, Jack R. Edwards

09:30 AM

(192e) Continuum Modeling and Flow Visualization of Blown Foams

Rekha Rao, Lisa A. Mondy, Veena Tikare, Edward M. Russick, P. Randall Schunk, Andrew M. Kraynik, Douglas B. Adolf, Thomas A. Baer, Stephen A. Altobelli, Raymond Cote

09:45 AM

(192f) Experimental and Modeling Studies on Solitary Wave Dynamics on Vertical and Inclined Film Flows

Cesar E. Meza, Ramesh Raju Mudunuri, Vemuri Balakotaiah

10:00 AM

(192g) Slip and Air-Entrainment at Water-Solid Interfaces

Yingxi Elaine Zhu, Lei Zhang, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Ashis Mukhopadhyay

10:15 AM

(192h) The Impact of Fluid Behavior on the Wedge-Flow near Moving Contact Lines

Gita Seevaratnam, Stephen Garoff, Enrique Rame, Lynn M. Walker

10:30 AM

(192i) Ac Electrospraying: Quasi-Steady Cones and Microjets

Siddharth Maheshwari, Hsueh-Chia Chang

10:45 AM

(192j) A Microscopic View of Liquid-Liquid Film Flows

Ilja Ausner, Steve Paschke, Jens-Uwe Repke, Andreas Hoffmann, Guenter Wozny