Preliminary Program subject to change
01J04 Interfacial Flows
OverviewThis 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.
Primary SponsorFluid Mechanics (01j)

Chair

Carlos Rinaldi
Chemical Engineering
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
PO Box 9046
Mayaguez, PR 00681
Phone Number: 787-832-4040
Fax Number: 787-834-3655
Email: crinaldi@uprm.edu

CoChair

Michael Loewenberg
Chemical Engineering
Yale University
9 Hillhouse Avenue
PO box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520-8286
Phone Number: 203-432-4334
Fax Number: 203-432-4387
Email: michael.loewenberg@yale.edu
Surface Functionalized Nanoparticles As Surfactants
Marcos Borrell, Yanli Gong and L. Gary Leal, Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Use Of Nano-Patterning To Manipulate Particle-Wall Interactions For Micron-Scale Objects In Shear Flow
Ranojoy D. Duffadar1, Jeffrey M. Davis1 and Maria M. Santore2, (1)Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 259B, Goesmann lab, North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Conte Polymer Laboratory, 120 Governor s Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Surfactant-Retarded And Surfactant-Enhanced Marangoni-Bénard Convection
Ram Hanumanthu, Chemical & Biomolecular Eng., Johns Hopkins University, 221 Maryland Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 and Kathleen J. Stebe, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Rm#221, Maryland Hall, Chembe, Baltimore, MD 21218
Gravity-Induced Motion Of A Deformable Drop Down An Inclined Wall
Andrew J. Griggs, Alexander Z. Zinchenko and Robert H. Davis, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 424 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0424
Effect Of Surfactant On Drop Dynamics In Electric Fields
Petia M. Vlahovska, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
Thermocapillary Motion Of Hybrid Drops
Liat Rosenfeld, Olga M. Lavrenteva and Avinoam Nir, Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Coalescence Dynamics Of A Pendent And A Sessile Drop
Zhengjun Xue, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 225 South University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 and Carlos M. Corvalan, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, 765 Agricultural Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Droplet Depostion Dynamics Inside a Microfluidic Device
B. Steinhaus, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130, Amy Shen, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1185, 1 Brookings Drive, St.Louis, MO 63130 and Patrick T. Spicer, Procter and Gamble, 8256 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069
Noncoalescence Of Drops In An Ambient Flow: Stability Of Stationary States
Piero Santoro and Michael Loewenberg, Chemical Engineering, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, PO box 208286, New Haven, CT 06520-8286
Instability of Confined Thin Liquid Film Trilayers
Richard D. Lenz and Satish Kumar, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals