Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

We highlight some recent developments that widen the scope and reach of mesoscopic thin-
film (or long-wave) hydrodynamic models employed to describe the dynamics of thin films …

Active chiral viscoelastic materials exhibit elastic responses perpendicular to the applied
stresses, referred to as odd elasticity. We use a covariant formulation of viscoelasticity …

Probing the fluid dynamics of thin films is an excellent tool for studying the solid/liquid
boundary condition. There is no need for external stimulation or pumping of the liquid, due to …

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 …

To characterize nontrivial boundary conditions of a liquid flowing past a solid, the slip length
is commonly used as a measure. From the profile of a retracting liquid front (eg, measured …

We compare the capillary levelling of a random surface perturbation on a thin polystyrene
film with a theoretical study on the two-dimensional capillary-driven thin film equation. Using …

We study spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystal droplets within the framework of the
long-wave approximation. A fourth-order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation …

We compare the dispersion relations for spinodally dewetting thin liquid films for increasing
magnitude of interfacial slip length in the lubrication limit. While the shape of the dispersion …

The equilibrium and flow of polymer films and drops past a surface are characterized by the
interface and surface tensions, viscosity, slip length and hydrodynamic boundary position …