Physicochemical Hydrodynamics

A. Drops, Bridges, Bubbles And Two-Phase Flow.- A.1. The Deformation and Break-Up of Single Drops in Shear Fields.- A.2. Detachment of Drops from Flat Solid Surfaces by a Simple Shear Flow.- A.3. Liquid Bridge Modeling of Floating Zone Processing.- A.4. Equilibrium Shapes and Free Vibrations of Liquid Captive Drops.- A.5. Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Bubbles by the Lattice Gas Method.- A.6. Effect of Interfacial Area on Flow Characteristics in Bubble Flow.- A.7. Effect of Surfactants on the Flow of Large Gas Bubbles in Capillary Tubes.- A.8. Motions of Stratified Gas-Liquid Interfaces Under Electromagnetic Fields in Horizontal Pipe Flow.- A.9. Measurement of Interfacial Area and Geometry in Gas- Liquid Two-Phase Flow by an Ultrasonic Pulse Echo Technique.- A.10. Interfacial Transfers in Stratified Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow: A Critical Review.- B. Interfacial Waves.- B.1. Surfactants and Capillary Waves: Experiments on Monolayers and on Microemulsions.- B.2. High Frequency Capillary Waves on Liquid Surfaces: a Light Scattering Study.- B.3. Some Surface Effects on Gravity Waves in a Viscous Fluid.- B.4. Sustained Gravity-Capillary (Laplace) Waves at Interfaces and Marangoni-Benard Instability.- B.5. The Harmonic Oscillator Description of Longitudinal (Marangoni-Lucassen) Waves at Liquid Interfaces.- C. Buoyancy-Capillary Convection With and Without Chemistry.- C.1. Experimental Investigations of the Effects of Surface Tension on Convection Caused by Heating from Below.- C.2. Influence of the Container Walls in Benard-Marangoni Convection: Experimental Approach.- C.3. Surface Tension Induced Convection in Presence of a Surface Tension Minimum.- C.4. Theories of Convective Instabilities Driven by Thermocapillary Forces.- C.5. Some Problems in Marangoni Instability.- C.6. Interfacial Effects on the Onset of Convection in Horizontal Liquid Layers.- C.7. Experiments on Steady and Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection in Space with Application to Crystal Growth.- C.8. On Thermocapillary Flows in Containers with Differentially Heated Side Walls.- C.9. Analysis of Flow Development Due to Marangoni Convection in a Mass Transfer System.- C.10. Two-Component Benard Steady Convection with Surface Adsorption.- C.11. Interfacial Convection Driven by Surfactant Compounds at Liquid Interfaces. Characterization by a Solutal Marangoni Number.- C.12. Surface Elasticity and Mechanical Instabilities at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces.- C.13. Volume or Surface Instabilities During Liquids Evaporation Under Reduced Pressure or/and Microwave Irradiation.- C.14. Basic Aspects of Tear Film Formation and Stability.- C.15. Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Microemulsions.- C.16. The General Phenomenon of Pattern Growth and Convection Driven by Chemical Reactions at Liquid Interfaces.- C.17. Chemical Waves and Natural Convection.- C.18. Kinetic Effects and Dynamics of Diffuse Interfaces.- C.19. A Turbulent Wrinkled Flame Simulation by Means of Cellular Automata.- D. Interfacial Instabilities, Fingering, And Crystal Growth - Related Problems.- D.1. Instabilities and Surface Tension.- D.2. An Experimental Study of the Saffman-Taylor Instability.- D.3. Theory of the Needle Crystal.- D.4. Dynamics of Unstable Interfaces.- D.5. Convective and Interfacial Instabilities During Solidification.- D.6. Generalized Ginzburg-Landau Equations Applied to Instabilities in Systems Coupling Convection and Solidification.- D.7. Dendritic Pattern Formation.- D.8. Cellular Morphological Instabilities During Directional Solidification: Thin Sample Experiments.- D.9. Transport Processes During Directional Solidification and Crystal Growth: Scaling and Experimental Study.- D.10. Molecular Beam Expitaxial Growth and Properties of Layered Semiconductor Structures for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Devices.- E. Liquid-Vapor and Liquid-Solid Interfaces, Capillarity, Wetting, Spreading, and Related Equilibria.- E.1. Synchroton X-Ray Studies of Liquid-Vapor Interfaces.- E.2. Statistical Mechanics of Interfaces.- E.3. Utilization of the Second Gradient Theory in Continuum Mechanics to Study the Motion and Thermodynamics of Liquid-Vapor Interfaces.- E.4. The Surface Tension of Ionic Liquids.- E.5. Landau Theory of Wetting Transitions.- E.6. The Dynamics of Wetting.- E.7. Spreading of Liquids on Solid Surfaces.- E.8. The Effects of Polymers on Wetting by Nonvolatile Liquids.- E.9. Phase Equilibria of Fluids in Narrow Pores.- E.10. Orientational Order and Surface Phase Transitions.- E.11. Wetting and Orientational Transitions in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- E.12. A Model for Capillary Crystallization.- F. More On Phase Diagrams, Monolayers, Aggregates, and Structure of Interfacial Layers.- F.1. The Liquid-Solid Two-Phase Coexistence.- F.2. Coexistence of Two-Phases: Long-Run Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulations.- F.3. Phase Separation of Binary Fluids Near a Critical Point Under Microgravity.- F.4. Influence of Sodium Sulfate on the Phase Diagram and Rheological Behaviour for a Sodium Dodecylben- zenesulafonate/Polyoxyethylene Fatty Alcohol/Water System.- F.5. Statistical Thermodynamics of Pure and Mixed Amphiphilic Aggregates.- F.6. Structural Studies in Langmuir Monolayers by Fluorescence Microscopy: a New Approach to the Phase Diagram of N-Pentadecanoic Acid at the Air-Water Interface.- F.7. ESR Study of Cu (II) in Polyacrylamide Networks.- F.8. Electric Potential and Charge Density Profiles in Inhomogeneous Interfacial Regions.- F.9. Packing and Pairing of Ions Near a Charged Electrode.- F.10 Propagation of Sound Waves in the Presence of Weak Density Inhomogeneity: Application to Interfacial Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Fluids.- G. Flow and Transport in Excitable Media.Patterns, Chaos and Related Topics.- G.1. Flow and Transport in Systems with Shape Change: Mass Transfer in Electrochemical Systems.- G.2. Numerical Simulations of Buoyancy Driven Flows in Cylinders and Cavities for Vapour Crystal Growth.- G.3. Onset of Oscillatory Convection in Horizontal Layers of Low-Prandtl-Number Melts.- G.4. The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation: Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Intermittencies for a Dynamical System.- G.5. Spatial Coherence and Temporal Chaos in Hydrodynamic Instabilities.- G.6. Interfaces in Electrophoresis, Two-Phase Models, and Excitable Media.- G.7. Field Induced Pattern Formation in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- G.8. Production of Ozone by High Frequency Surface Discharge on a High Purity Alumina Ceramic Dielectrics.- Participants.- Author Index.