Thin Liquid Films Dewetting and Polymer Flow /

• Main Author: Blossey, Ralf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Materials > Surfaces.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Physical Chemistry.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Polymer Sciences.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This book is a treatise on the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of thin liquid films at solid surfaces and, in particular, their rupture instabilities. For the quantitative study of these phenomena, polymer thin films haven proven to be an invaluable experimental model system.   What is it that...

Table of Contents:

• Applications of Thin Films
• Statistical Mechanics of Thin Films
• Capillarity and Surface Tension
• Forces acting on Interfaces
• Wetting and Dewetting
• The Solid-Liquid Boundary
• Polymers as Thin Films: Glass Transition
• Hydrodynamics of Thin Films
• Lubrication Approximation for Viscous Thin Films
• Film Rupture
• Rims
• Fluctuations in Thin Films
• Visco-elastic Thin Films
• Mathematics of Thin-Film Equations
• Existence and Regularity of Solutions to Thin Film Equations
• Numerics for Thin-Film Equations.