Modeling airflow-driven water droplet removal from a flat surface

Magnetic fluid bearings & seals: Methods, design & application

The bearing and the seal are two commonly used tribological components since nearly all moving machinery relies on them for proper operation. Even a small improvement in these components can have a big impact on both the market and the environment. The two main problems of these components are wear and friction. In addition, seals suffer from...

Analytical solutions of one-way coupled magnetohydrodynamic free surface flow

We study the flow in a layer of conductive liquid under the influence of surface tension, gravity, and Lorentz forces due to imposed potential differences and transverse magnetic fields, as a function of the Hartmann number, the Bond number, the Reynolds number, the capillary number and the height-to-width ratio A. For aspect ratios A 1 and...

Moving liquid droplets with inertia: Experiment, simulation, and theory

This thesis is a work on a contact line instability at a finite Reynolds number, 0 < Re < O(100). This problem corresponds to an immersion droplet applied in a liquid- immersion lithography machine. We perform extensive works to understand this instability problem by means of experimental, numerical, and theoretical ways. First, in order to...