MIT-Open-Courses – Nanometric

Interfacial Phenomena

The “Fluid fishbone” formed by the collision of two jets of a glycerine-water solution. (Image courtesy of John W. M. Bush and Alexander E. Hasha.)

Instructor(s)

Prof. John W. M. Bush

MIT Course Number

18.357

As Taught In

Fall 2010

Level

Graduate

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Course Contents

File	Description	File size
1.Introduction-Notation	Suggested References	123 KB
2.Definition and Scaling of Surface Tension	Governing Equations	285 KB
3.Wetting	Puddles. What sets their size	123 KB
4.Young's Law with Applications	Development of Interfacial Flow, Drop motion within a fluid	197 KB
5.Stress Boundary Conditions	at a fluid-fluid interface, Fluid Statics	326 KB
6.More on Fluid Statics	Capillary forces on floating bodies	163 KB
7.Spinning, Tumbling and Rolling Drops	Rotating Drops	259 KB
8.Capillary Rise	Historical Notes, Dynamics	233 KB
9.Marangoni Flows	Thermal Marangoni Convection	847 KB
10.Marangoni Flows II	Tears of Wine, Bubble motion, Footprint of a Whale,	597 KB
11.Fluid Jets	Plateau-Rayleigh Instability - Fluid Pipes	407 KB
12.Instability Dynamics	Fluid Coating on a Fiber – Rupture of a Soap Film	253 KB
13.Fluid Sheets	shape and stability, Circular Sheet, Lenticular sheets Swirling Water Bell	489 KB
14.Instability of Superposed Fluids	Rayleigh-Taylor Instability -Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability	190 KB
15.Contact Angle Hysteresis, Wetting of Textured Solids	Wetting of textured solids -Wetting of a Rough Surface	267 KB
16.More Forced Wetting	Hydrophobic Case -Landau-Levich-Derjaguin	337 KB
17.Coating Dynamic Contact Lines	Fiber Coating -Contact Line Dynamics	565 KB
18.Spreading	of small drops on solids.Immiscible Drops -Oil Spill -Oil on water	346 KB
19.Water Waves	Gravity waves . Capillary Waves	189 KB