Direct Numerical Simulation of Locally Coupled Transport Processes at Dynamic Contact Lines (B02)

• Subject Area: Fluid Mechanics
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 265191195

Complementary to the volume tracking method in project B01, this project further develops an interface tracking method, which allows the interaction between contact line dynamics and interfacial transport of surfactants to be captured in a conservative manner. This interaction is currently not understood in detail and cannot be enlightened from experiments alone. Moreover, development of efficient re-meshing methods for polyhedron meshes and discrete calculus discretization approaches will be implemented. Application oriented, forced wetting and dewetting scenarios from printing technology will be examined.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1194: Interaction between Transport and Wetting Processes
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Dieter Bothe, from 1/2022 until 6/2022; Dr. Mathis Fricke, since 7/2022; Dr.-Ing. Dirk Gründing, until 12/2021; Dr.-Ing. Holger Marschall, until 6/2020