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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Leeds
Electrified thin film flow at finite Reynolds number on planar substrates featuring topography
Collaborative research with Heilbronn University, Germany, Veremieiev supported by EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network grant ESTER: MEST-CT-2005-020599. Develops a novel analytical approach for modelling influence of electric field on hydrodynamics, enabling existing two-dimensional analyses of electrified thin film free-surface flows to be extended to more practically-relevant three-dimensional cases, for the first time. Paper demonstrates limitations of popular approaches to modelling inertia in thin film free-surface flows and shows that depth averaged form (DAF) approach used here is more accurate for finite Reynolds numbers. Results show that electric fields can be used to planarise free-surface disturbances initiated in practical applications.
