Overview
- Unique coherent compendium of the theoretical underpinnings of thin film dynamics, in particular their instabilities
- Presents a large range of applications of existing thin polymeric films, as well as an outlook on promising future ones
- Written for researchers across all interdisciplinary fields connected to thin films
- Bridges between the ‘light’ and the more rigorous theoretical approaches to dewetting phenomena
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dewetting
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Front Matter
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Polymer Flow
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Applications Polymeric Films
- Dewetting
- Fluctuations Thin Films
- Glass Transition Thin Films
- Hydrodynamics Limits Investigation
- Hydrodynamics Thin Films
- Mathematics Thin Film Equation
- Numerics Thin Film Equation
- Physics of Dewetting
- Polymer Thin Film
- Polymer Thin Films
- Polymer Ultrathin Film
- Polymer Ultrathin Films
- Theory Thin Film Instability
- Theory of Dewetting
- Thermodynamic Properties Thin Film
- Thermodynamic Property Thin Film
- Thin Film
- Thin Film Dewetting
- Thin Film Dynamics
- Thin Film Instability
- Thin Film Rupture
- Thin Film Solid Surface
- Thin Film Solid Surfaces
- Thin Films
- Thin Films Instability
- Thin Films Rupture
- Thin Liquid Film
- Thin Liquid Films
- Unstable Thin Film
- Unstable Thin Films
- Wetting and Dewetting
About this book
What is it that makes thin film instabilities special and interesting? First, thin polymeric films have an important range of applications. An understanding of their instabilities is therefore of practical relevance for the design of such films. The first chapter of the book intends to give a snapshot of current applications, and an outlook on promising future ones. Second, thin liquid films are an interdisciplinary research topic, which leads to a fairly heterogeneous community working on the topic. It justifies attempting to write a text which gives a coherent presentation of the field which researchers across their specialized communities might be interested in. Finally, thin liquid films are an interesting laboratory for a theorist to confront a well-established theory, hydrodynamics, with its limits. Thin films are therefore a field in which a highly fruitful exchange and collaboration exists between experimentalists and theorists.
The book stretches from the more concrete to more abstract levels of study: we roughly progress from applications via theory and experiment to rigorous mathematical theory. For an experimental scientist, the book should serve as a reference and guide to what is the current consensus of the theoretical underpinnings of the field of thin film dynamics. Controversial problems on which such a consensus has not yet been reached are clearly indicated in the text, as well as discussed in a final chapter. From a theoretical point of view, the field of dewetting has mainly been treated in a mathematically ‘light’ yet elegant fashion, often making use of scaling arguments. For the untrained researcher,this approach is not always easy to follow. The present book attempts to bridge between the ‘light’ and the ‘rigorous’, always with the ambition to enhance insight and understanding - and to not let go the elegance of the theory.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The text is spread over six chapters with appendices, lists of figures and symbols used, and bibliography. The appendices make the text self-sufficient. A useful aspect for graduate students is the inclusion of tasks in each chapter. … The text is very well written, and the concepts are laid down with clarity. The emphasis is on the reader to appreciate the subject … .” (S. C. Rajvanshi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1255, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thin Liquid Films
Book Subtitle: Dewetting and Polymer Flow
Authors: Ralf Blossey
Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4455-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4454-7Published: 23 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9886-1Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4455-4Published: 22 May 2012
Series ISSN: 1864-5879
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 154
Topics: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Physical Chemistry, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Polymer Sciences, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics