Interaction between Transport and Wetting Processes

This open access book explains the wetting of surfaces by fluids or their dewetting plays an important role in numerous processes in production engineering, energy technology and process engineering.However, the mutual influences between the dynamic wetting and dewetting processes and the local transport processes in terms of momentum, energy or material are not sufficiently understood and predictable, especially when the fluids and surfaces are complex and the processes are transient.The Collaborative Research Center 1194 of the German Research Foundation (CRC 1194) has derived 5 overarching goals for its research program: (1) In-depth understanding of the relationships and mechanisms of action of local momentum, heat and mass transport processes on wetting properties and vice versa; (2) Development of physically based, mathematical models, numerical methods and freely available simulation programs; (3) Development of high-resolution measurement methods for the experimental analysis o