Modelling Macroscopic Phenomena at Liquid Boundaries

✍ Scribed by W. Kosinski, A. I. Murdoch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 318
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Currently much research is being undertaken, within a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines, on macroscopic phenomena associated with liquid boundaries. This volume contains articles which address the modelling of such phenomena from a variety of viewpoints. These works serve to acquaint the reader with the range of macroscopic behaviour which can occur at liquid boundaries, to indicate various aproaches to relevant continuum descriptions and the difficulties of modelling non-equilibrium situations, to demonstrate applications of continuum models to the solution of practical problems, and to convey due appreciation of experimental aspects of the subject. The specific topics addressed are phenomenological approaches to fluid-flute interfaces and the physical interpretation of associated concepts and quantities, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical physics of liquid-vapour interfaces, the physics of ice-water phase-change surfaces, and the prediction of static and dynamic contact angles, wetting and spreading.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-4
On The Physical Interpretation of Fluid Interfacial Concepts and Fields....Pages 5-63
A Phenomenological Approach to Fluid-Phase Interfaces....Pages 65-105
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics of the Liquid-Vapor Interface....Pages 107-158
The Physics of Ice-Water Phase Change Surfaces....Pages 159-216
Moving Common Lines, Thin Films, and Dynamic Contact Angles....Pages 217-288

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry; Thermodynamics; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering