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- 1Amirfazli, Alidad (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Choi, Phillip (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Dr. Peichun Amy Tsai (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Peichun Amy Tsai (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Xu, Zhenghe (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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2020-01-01
Mahrous, E., Jarauta, A., Chan, T., Ryzhakov, P., Weber, A.Z., Roy, R.V., Secanell, M.
A particle finite element method (PFEM) based model is proposed to analyze droplet dynamics problems, particularly droplet spreading on solid substrates (wetting). The model uses an updated Lagrangian framework to formulate the governing equations of the liquid. Curvature of the liquid surface is...
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Spring 2015
The minable oil sands extraction process can be understood on a scale of a single oil sand grain. When the oil sand ore is mixed with warm water, each sand granule is initially covered with bitumen film which ruptures under the composite effect of shear and interfacial forces, while water...
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Spring 2010
Molecular dynamics simulation and density functional theory were applied to calculate heats of immersion (ΔHimm) of n-heptane, toluene, pyridine and water on two model sand surfaces and two model clay surfaces. Our results indicated that water showed the highest ΔHimm for the model clay surfaces...
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On the role of orifice wetting for Al and Al22.5wt%Cu with Al2O3 in the Discharge Crucible method
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The demand to develop Materials Genomics and Integrated Materials Computation requires the availability of high temperature property data of liquid metals. As computing power and algorithms are constantly being improved, the accuracy of thermophysical property data has emerged as one of the...
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Fall 2012
Last couple of decades have witnessed massive upsurge in efforts of transporting and manipulating solutes and moieties in microfluidic devices. Classical pressure-driven transport demands massive pumping power for microchannels making it unusable in several microfluidic applications. Accordingly,...
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Superhydrophobic Micro- and Nano-structured Surfaces: Fabrication, Wetting, and Evaporation
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Water-repellent, superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces have attracted a remarkable interest in researchers for both purely academic pursuits and industrial applications, including nanofluidics and microfluidics, coatings, and drag reduction, due to their unique self-cleaning and drag reduction...
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Spring 2018
Superhydrophobic interfaces, due to their unique water repellent and self-cleaning properties, are attracting a wide-spread interest for implementation in a variety of applications, including self-assembly based fabrication methods, nano/microfluidics, and solar energy harvesting. To facilitate...
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Spring 2013
This thesis is concerned with the effect of mechanical wear on superhydrophobic surfaces (SHS). This work, for the first time, systematically details the simultaneous surface topography and wetting behavior changes upon abrasion of SHS. The process of physical abrasion was also simulated on the...