This project studies molecular processes in dynamic wetting, including how they affect larger scales and interface with continuum models. Although wetting is a phenomenon that can be observed by eye at the macroscale, processes at the molecular scale can play an important role, especially at the three-phase contact line, where solid, liquis and gas meet. Here displacements of small groups of molecules determine how fast the contact line, and thereby the wetting advances. Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool to study these processes. Information obtained at the molecular scale is then transfered to model at larger scale in a multi-scale modeling framework.
Wetting Dynamics
This project studies molecular processes in dynamic wetting, including how they affect larger scales and interface with continuum models.
