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PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH - Dominic Vella (University of Oxford)
Drops with deformable boundaries : Flat tops, Locomotion and Ageing
A liquid droplet placed on a rigid, planar surface has a captivating simplicity : its surface is a spherical cap and remains in equilibrium. In this talk, I'll show that the addition of a deformable boundary leads to a range of new phenomena : evaporating droplets with an elastic skin may develop flat tops, while droplets placed in a flexible channel invariably push or pull themselves to the end of the channel. Even without a complex rheology or locomotion, reaching equilibrium can happen slowly, with the droplet's contact ageing. I will discuss three specific examples, presenting a combination of theory and experiment for each.
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)
