Collaboration

• WIAS
  Barbara Wagner, Ernst Höschele, Konstantin Afanasiev,
  Robert Huth, Pete Evans, Maciek Korzec,
  Christoph Grützmacher, Wolfgang Dreyer, Clemens Guhlke


• External
  Andreas Münch (Oxford), Barbara Niethammer (Oxford)
  Eberhard Bänsch (Erlangen), Rodolphe Prignitz (Erlangen), Jochen Schmidt (Erlangen)
  Ralf Seemann (Saarbrücken), Konstantina Kostourou (Göttingen)

Research interests

• Modelling and Analysis of Thin Liquid Films
  
• Stability, Rupture and Dynamics of Free Boundary Problems
  
• Applied Mathematics, Asymptotic Expansions, Lubrication Equations
  
• Numerics of PDEs and ODEs
• General Physics
  

Thesis

• Self-Similar Rupture of Thin Liquid Films with Slippage   (PDF, 2M)
  Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Mathematics, DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1128
  Dissertation supervised by Andreas Münch and Barbara Niethammer.
  
  
• On the semiclassical structure of Q C D -A lattice study at finite temperature-    (PDF, 5M)
  Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Physics, Theory of Elementary Particles
  Thesis supervised by Michael Müller-Preußker and Ernst-Michael Ilgenfritz.
  

Publications

• Thin-film rupture for large slip
  Peschka, Münch and Niethammer. Journal of Engineering Mathematics (2009)
• Self-similar rupture of viscous thin films in the strong slip regime
  Peschka, Münch and Niethammer. Nonlinearity (2009)
  
• Dewetting of thin polymer films on viscoelastic substrates
  Kostourou, Peschka, Münch, Wagner, Herminghaus, Seemann. Proc. Eur. Coating Symposium 2009 (to appear)
  



• Searching for KvBLL calorons in SU(3) lattice gauge field ensembles
  Gattringer, Ilgenfritz, Martemyanov, Müller-Preußker, Peschka, Pullirsch, Schaefer, Schäfer. Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl. (2004)
• Calorons in SU(3) lattice gauge theory
  Ilgenfritz, Müller-Preußker, Peschka. Phys. Rev. D (2005)

Talks

• EUROMECH Colloquium 497 - Recent Developments and New Directions in Thin-Film Flow in Edinburgh (2009)
• 8th European Coating Symposium in Karlsruhe (2009),

Media

Liquid-Liquid Dewetting: Hole growth is driven by surface energies.

Liquid-Liquid Dewetting: Evolution towards the equilibrium state.

Liquid-Liquid Dewetting: Hole growth in 2D.

Supplement

Stochastic path minimization in non-trivial topologies with matlab (pfadproblem.m).

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