Forced wetting and de-wetting on complex surfaces – Generic configuration immersed body.- Experimental investigation of coalescence and breakup of droplets on solid surfaces – Generic configuration sessile drop.- Investigation of fast de-wetting from substrates with complex surface morphologies.- Flow and evaporation of pure liquids and (nano)-suspensions from structured coatings.- Wetting and t ...Full description
Forced wetting and de-wetting on complex surfaces – Generic configuration immersed body.- Experimental investigation of coalescence and breakup of droplets on solid surfaces – Generic configuration sessile drop.- Investigation of fast de-wetting from substrates with complex surface morphologies.- Flow and evaporation of pure liquids and (nano)-suspensions from structured coatings.- Wetting and transport on swellable, immobilized polymer brushes and polymer networks.- Flow velocity profile near a moving three-phase contact line.- Raman spectroscopy for investigating mass transport and concentration gradients in mixtures.- Spatially resolved NMR for investigating fluid behavior on solid surfaces.- Nanoscale investigation of wetting and de-wetting during imbibtion and nucleation.- Modeling and VOF-based multiphysics simulation of irreversible thermodynamic transfer processes at dynamic contact lines.- Direct numerical simulation of locally coupled interface processes at dynamic contact lines.- Simulation-based optimization and optimal design of experiments for wetting processes.- High order schemes for direct numerical simulation for wetting and de-wetting problems based on the discontinuous Galerkin method.- Scale bridging simulation of dynamic wetting based on the phase field method.- Forced wetting with hydrodynamic assist on gravure print cylinders.- Multiscale investigations of boiling of complex fluids on complex surfaces.- Condensation of water on hydrophobic, structured surfaces.- Controlled dynamic wetting and the influence of ionic mass transport in mesoporous films.- Contact line dynamics and diffusion-driven nucleation during cavitation.- Surface characterization by drops on an inclined plane.- Research data management.- Management of research collaboration.