Collaboration

• in Berlin
  Barbara Wagner (WIAS, TU-Berlin), Sebastian Jachalski (WIAS),
  Robert Huth (WIAS), Alexander Linke (WIAS) Maciek Korzec (TU-Berlin),
  


• External
  Andrea Bertozzi (Los Angeles, US), Nebojsa Murisic (Princeton, US), Benoit Paussader (Paris, FR),
  Andreas Münch (Oxford, UK), Georgy Kitavtsev (Leipzig, Ger), Barbara Niethammer (Oxford, UK)
  Eberhard Bänsch (Erlangen, Ger), Rodolphe Prignitz (Erlangen, Ger), Jochen Schmidt (Erlangen, Ger)
  Ralf Seemann (Saarbrücken, Ger), Stefan Bommer (Saarbrücken, Ger)


• Previous Projects
  Ernst Höschele, Konstantin Afanasiev, Konstantina Kostourou

Research interests

• Modelling and Analysis of Thin Liquid Films
  
• Particle laden flows (suspension flows)
  
• Electrochemistry (Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes equations)
  
• Stability, Rupture and Dynamics of Free Boundary Problems
  
• Applied Mathematics, Asymptotic Expansions, Lubrication Equations
  
• Numerics of PDEs and ODEs (FEM, Finite Differences)
• 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

• Droplets on liquids and their long way into equilibrium
  Bommer, Jachalski, Peschka, Seemann, Wagner. arXiv:1212.1183 (2012)
• Impact of interfacial slip on the stability of liquid two-layer polymer films
  Jachalski, Peschka, Münch, Wagner. WIAS preprint (2012)
• Dynamics of particle settling and resuspension in viscous liquids
  Murisic, Pausader, Peschka, Bertozzi. Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2013) doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.567
• Stationary solutions of liquid two-layer thin film models
  Jachalski, Huth, Kitavtsev, Peschka, Wagner. SIAP (2013) accepted.
• Conductivity in nonpolar media: Experimental and numerical studies on sodium AOT-hexadecane, lecithin-hexadecane and Al(dips)3-hexadecane systems
  Schmidt, Prignitz, Peschka, Münch, Wagner, Bänsch, Peukert. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2012) doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2012.07.051
• Interface morphologies in liquid/liquid dewetting
  Kostourou, Peschka, Münch, Wagner, Herminghaus, Seemann. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification (2011) doi:10.1016/j.cep.2010.10.006
• Thin-film rupture for large slip
  Peschka, Münch and Niethammer. Journal of Engineering Mathematics (2009), doi:10.1007/s10665-009-9342-7
• Self-similar rupture of viscous thin films in the strong slip regime
  Peschka, Münch and Niethammer. Nonlinearity (2009), doi:10.1088/0951-7715/23/2/010
  



• 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

• 12. International Conference on Free Boundary Problems - Theory and Applications (2012)
• UCLA - Applied Math Colloqium with A.L. Bertozzi (2011)
• MPI Leipzig - RG Pattern Formation with F. Otto (2011)
• ICIAM 2011 - Vancouver, MS469 The Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films (2011)
• Langenbach Seminar, WIAS (2011)
• 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).

Rupture and dewetting of liquid on a solid substrate and coalescence of holes (FEM)

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