Interaction Between Transport and Wetting Processes

Peter Stephan is Full Professor at TU Darmstadt and head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics. His research spans heat and mass transfer, interfacial phenomena and thermo fluid systems. He served as Spokesperson of CRC 1194. He is spokesperson of TU Darmstadt’s Research Field “Energy & Environment”, Vice President of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer and holds editorial positions in several leading heat transfer journals.Dieter Bothe is Full Professor at TU Darmstadt and head of the Institute for Mathematical Modeling and Analysis. His research focuses on two-phase flows and transport phenomena at fluid interfaces combining continuum-thermodynamical modeling, mathematical and computational analysis, numerical methods, and research software engineering. He served as Co-Spokesperson of the CRC 1194. He is coordinator of TU Darmstadt’s research profile topic “Thermo-Fluids & Interfacial Phenomena”, associated editor of the international journal “Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications” and serves on the editorial advisory board of the “International Journal of Multiphase Flow”. Benjamin Lambie is Managing Director of the TU Darmstadt’s Research Field “Energy & Environment”, where he also managed the CRC 1194 and coordinated major collaborative research programs. His background spans thermo fluids, multiphase flow systems, research management and digital transformation. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from TU Darmstadt and previously contributed to the Smart Interfaces Excellence Cluster as researcher and innovation lead.

• 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.