| Sreehari Perumanath |
| Fri 02 Nov 2018, 13:30 - 14:00 |
| AGB seminar room |
If you have a question about this talk, please contact: Dong-Hyuk Shin (v1dshin)
Pizza will be served at 12:30 PM.
Abstract:
Droplet coalescence finds applications in many natural as well as engineering processes. A detailed study of coalescence is hindered by the
existence of a finite-time singularity in the mathematical models when the droplets first meet. Of course, in reality, a singularity cannot exist and until
now we do not know what exactly happens in those early moments of droplet coalescence. Here we answer this very question by considering the
molecular nature of coalescing liquids.
Bio:
Sreehari is a third year PhD student in the institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT) within the School of Engineering. As a part of his PhD,
he is studying the dynamics of nano-droplets using molecular dynamics (MD) towards the development of a multiscale method to study droplets in detail. He obtained his Masters (M. Tech) in Thermal Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in 2015. His other research interests include nano-droplet migration on
surfaces, polymer dynamics in nano-scale confinements and rarefied gas dynamics.