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Numerical and experimental tools development to study evapora- tion with cont...
The tasks fulfilled during this study aim at providing tools for understanding the mechanisms of liquid film evaporation. Evaporation in the presence of a triple lines... -
Flow Boiling of Water on Titanium and Diamond-like carbon coated Surfaces in ...
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The effect of the oil/water interfacial tension on electrowetting driven flui...
The effect of the oil/water interfacial tension on the voltage-controlled two-dimensional motion of an oil/water interface across a hydrophobic fluoropolymer insulator... -
Surface wettability control by nanocoating: the effects on pool boiling heat ...
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A new approach to understanding the effects of surface wettability on nucleat...
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How surface wettability influences nucleate boiling ?
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Static and Dynamic Wetting: Geometrical Effects at Molecular Scales
This thesis highlights different geometric effects involved in wetting phenomena. The first part is dedicated to the development of a model of interactions in liquids... -
Wettability of heterogeneous surfaces (iron / oxide) by an alloy of liquid zinc
Wetting phenomenon takes place in several processes among which continuous galvanizing of steel sheet for car bodies. In this process, the steel sheet is immersed in a... -
Water repellency of organic growing media and its consequences on their hydra...
In contrast to soils, most growing media can exhibit hysteresis during drying/wetting cycles, which greatly affects their hydraulic properties. In the case of organic... -
Flow boiling of water in a minichannel: The effects of surface wettability on...
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A model to predict the effect of surface wettability on critical heat flux
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Molecular mecanisms of friction at soft polymer interfaces
Different experiments show a correlation between interaction heterogeneities (roughnessor chemical inhomogeneities) and friction properties of surfaces but the exact... -
Surface energy and hybridization studies of amorphous carbon surfaces
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Fabrication and Superhydrophobic Behavior of Fluorinated Microspheres
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Gas "wets" a solid wall in orbit
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Evaporation at microscopic scale and at high heat flux
This thesis theoretically investigates the transport processes in the vicinity of the triple gas-liquid-solid contact line and its impact on macroscopic evaporation.... -
Droplet spreading on a porous surface: A lattice Boltzmann study
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Study of conducting materials by coupling of elctrochemical impedance spectro...
The objective of this work is to study in situ behavior of conducting polymers by coupling contact angle measurements with different electrochemical analysis tools... -
Flow with wetting effects:<br />Drops and meanders on an inclined plane
Under partially wetting conditions, the rear of drops sliding down an inclined plane develops, above a critical velocity, a cornered singularity which is rounded at... -
Direct numerical simulation flows thanks to an immersed boundary method
Since several years, the research conducted at the CORIA laboratory led to the development of a numerical tool (ARCHER) alllowing direct numerical simulations of two...
