Speaker: Daniel Wheeler, NIST
Title: Phase Field Modeling of Dissolutive Wetting

Abstract: Accurately modeling a spreading drop on a reactive substrate is enormously complicated. A minimal model requires the inclusion of three phases (and associated phase changes), two alloy components (and associated advection/diffusion), and hydrodynamics. I will present a phase field model of dissolutive wetting that demonstrates crucial insights into the nature of the spreading process and compare the results with recent state-of-the-art experiments.

Time: Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Place: Science and Tech I, Room 242

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