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Short Course on

Complex Wetting

October 11- 13, 2017 Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany

Course description and aims The Short Course on Complex Wetting has the aimto present the fundamentals and industrial applica-tions of wetting phenomena to engineers and re-searchers in chemical, mechanical, pharmaceutical,environmental and food engineering. The fundamentals of interfacial physics and wettingphenomena are addressed during the first day of thecourse, together with the methods of theoreticaland numerical description of wetting. The second day is devoted to techniques for thepreparation of surfaces and the characterization ofinterfaces as well as complex wetting phenomena.Experimental methods determining contact angle,interfacial tension, etc. are presented. A special focus of the day lies on complex wettingphenomena, involving complex surfaces (soft, tex-tured, porous, coated…), complex liquids (surfac-tant solutions) and on methods of controlling wet-ting phenomena. The lectures on the third day present typical indus-trial applications relying on wetting phenomenasuch as functional printing and coating, preventionof ice accretion, etc. The program foresees intensive discussions betweenthe participants and the lecturers and also amongthe participants. The aim is to address on-going de-velopment and application problems suggested bythe participants.

Who should attend? The course is designed for engineers and research-ers encountering the wetting issues in chemical, me-chanical, pharmaceutical, environmental and foodindustry. The course embraces the fundamentals ofwetting, the theoretical, numerical and experi-mental aspects of statics and dynamics of wetting aswell as industrial applications.

Venue Technische Universität Darmstadt Center of Smart Interfaces (Lichtwiese Campus) Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Fees and egistration The registration fee is

Industry: 1100 EUR Academia: 700 EUR

Fee is VAT free according to §4 Nr. 22a USTG and includes all documentation of the lectures, coffeebreaks, lunches and a course dinner on the thirdday. Participation is limited to 40 people. Registrations for this three-day short course can be made online on the course website under:

www.tfi.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2017 For further information, please refer to the coursewebsite or contact Ms. Monika Medina. medina@tfi.tu-darmstadt

Offered by the Profile Area Thermo-Fluids & Interfaces in cooperation with DFG-CRC 1194 and ITN CoWet www.tfi.tu-darmstadt.de

Lecturers

Dr. Elmar Bonaccurso Project leader for surface technology and advanced materials at Airbus Group Innovations

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Butt Director of the department Physics at Interfaces at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Edgar Dörsam Head of the Institute of Printing Science and Technology, TU Darmstadt

Apl. Prof. Dr. Sc. Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman Head of the research group Interfacial Transport and Complex Wetting at the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, TU Darmstadt

Dr. Holger Marschall Head of a research group on advanced two-phase and interfa-cial flow simulations at the Chair of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, TU Darmstadt

Dr. habil. Reinhard Miller Head of the research group Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Rhe-ology of Interfacial Layers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam

Apl. Prof. Dr. Sc. Ilia V Roisman Head of the research group Dynamics of Drops and Sprays at the Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics, TU Darmstadt

Prof. Dr. Robert Stark Head of the Institute Physics of Surfaces, TU Darmstadt

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Stephan Head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, TU Darmstadt

Prof. Victor Starov Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cameron Tropea Head of the Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics, TU Darmstadt

Dr. Joachim Venzmer Head of Research Interfacial Technology, Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH

Oct 11: Fundamentals (Wednesday) 8:30 Registration, distribution of lecture notes 9:00 Welcome, introductions and overview of

the course (Stephan, Gambaryan-Roisman)9:45 Capillarity and surface tension (Gambaryan-Roisman)

10:30 Coffee 11:00 Hydrodynamics of interfaces

(Gambaryan-Roisman) 11:45 Surface forces and wetting phenomena

(Starov) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Static wetting (Roisman) 14:15 Dynamic wetting: hydrodynamic and molecular-dynamic approaches (Roisman) 15:00 Coffee 15:30 Wetting with phase change (Stephan) 16:15 Numerical description of wetting

phenomena (Marschall) 17:00 Close of first day with beer and pretzels

Oct 12: Characterization & Complex Systems 9:00 Preparation and characterization of surfaces (Stark) 9:45 Optical measurement techniques of wetting processes (Tropea) 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Characterization of surface and interfacial

tension, contact angles (Miller) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Dynamic wetting of soft, liquid and soluble

surfaces (Gambaryan-Roisman) 14:15 Dynamic wetting of textured surfaces

(Roisman) 15:00 Coffee 15:30 Wetting of membranes and porous media

(Starov) 16:15 Wetting agents and superspreading

(Venzmer) 17:00 Close of second day Exhibition of diagnostic equipment during lunch and coffee breaks 19:00 Short Course Dinner Oct 13: Industrial Applications (Friday) 9:00 Superhydrophobic and superoleophobic

surfaces (Butt) 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Modern coating and printing technologies

(Dörsam) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Icephobic coatings for aeronautical applications (Bonaccurso) 14:15 Surface-active agents in personal care and

home care products (Venzmer) 15:00 Close of short course