Droplet nucleation and condensation are ubiquitous phenomena in nature and industry.
Over the past century, research has shown dropwise condensation heat transfer on …

Charge separation behind moving water drops occurs in nature and technology. Yet, the
physical mechanism has remained obscure, as charge deposition is energetically …

The wettability of mineral surfaces is an important property influencing multiphase flow in
soils and sedimentary rocks. In particular, for CO2 abatement technologies that rely on …

Immiscible fluid-fluid displacement in partial wetting continues to challenge our microscopic
and macroscopic descriptions. Here, we study the displacement of a viscous fluid by a less …

A uniform nanometric thin liquid film on a solid substrate can become unstable due to the
action of van der Waals (vdW) forces. The instability leads to dewetting of the uniform film …

Coalescence and breakup of drops are classic problems in fluid physics that often involve
self-similarity and singularity formation. While the coalescence of suspended drops is …

The aim of this lecture is to provide an overview on solid-state wetting, starting from basic
concepts, and introducing the useful mathematical paraphernalia. We review and discuss …

Durotaxis refers to cell motion directed by stiffness gradients of an underlying substrate.
Recent work has shown that droplets also move spontaneously along stiffness gradients …

We propose a thermodynamic approach to modeling unsaturated flow in porous media,
where the liquid saturation is understood as the state variable. The free energy functional is …

When one fluid displaces another in a confined environment, some energy is dissipated in
the fluid bulk and the rest is dissipated near the contact line. Here we study the relative …