Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Benard and Thermo-Capillary Instabilities: 1. Nonlinear dynamics and stability of thin evaporating liquid films subject to internal heat generation; 2. Pattern formation in liquid-air convection - influence of air height in bilayer coupling; 3. The third type of Benard convection induced by evaporation; 4. Waves generated by surface tension gradients and instability; 5. Thermocapillary-Coriolis instabilities; Part II. Shear and Pressure Driven Instabilities: 6. Control of instability in a liquid film flow; 7. Three-dimensional waves in thin liquid films; 8. Modulation wave dynamics of kinematic interfacial waves; 9. Multi-layer film flows down an inclined plane: simulations based on the lubrication approximation, and normal-mode decomposition of linear waves; 10. Spatial evolution of interfacial waves in gas-liquid flows; 11. The shear breakup of an immiscible fluid interface; 12. Two-fluid-layer flow stability; Part III. Waves and Dispersion: 13. On modeling unsteady fully nonlinear dispersive interfacial waves; 14. Instabilities in the coupled equatorial ocean-atmosphere system; 15. Large amplitude solitary wave on a pyenocluine and its instability; 16. Stability and pattern selection in parametrically driven surface waves; 17. Deformation and rupture in confined, thin liquid films driven by thermocapillarity; 18. Linear and nonlinear waves in flowing water; 19. Pinned-edge Faraday waves; 20. Interfacial shapes in the steady flow of a highly viscous dispersed phase; Part IV. Multiphase Systems: 21. Interaction between fluid flow and flexible structures; 22. Numerical treatment of moving interfaces in phase-change processes; 23. Convergence and accuracy of Kernel-based continuum surface tension models; 24. Interaction of convection and solidification at fluid-solid interfaces; 25. Interfacial motion of a molten layer subject to plasma heating; 26. The fluid mechanics of premelted liquid films; 27. Recent advances in Lattice Boltzmann methods; 28. Bubble dynamics in heterogeneous boiling heat transfer; Part V. Complex Flows: 29. Heat, mass and momentum exchanges between outer flow and separation bubble behind a single backward-facing step with gas injection from one duct wall; 30. A moving boundary problem arising from stratigraphic modeling; 31. Convection generated by lateral heating of a solute gradient: review and extension; 32. Heat conduction from a solid particle and the force on it in Stokes flow in a fluid with position dependent physical properties; 33. Radiation affected ignition phenomena with solid-gas interaction; 34. Bio-magnetic fluid dynamics; 35. The man I know: Chia-Shun Yih, July 25, 1988–April 25, 1997; Index.