Events
Physics - Colloidal Dynamics in Confined Geometry
| Date: | Friday 28 March 2008 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Location: | SCR Bar |
Over the last decade technological developments in microfluidics as well as in self assembly on substrates have made clear the need to understand the dynamics of mesoparticles suspended in a fluid near confining walls. Theoretically it has proved possible to set up simulation techniques which enable one to study single and multi-particle motion driven by external forces or externally imposed flows near single walls, between plane parallel walls and inside spherical cavities. In this talk I will show that one can use simulation to understand the effect of these confining geometries and to see how the dynamics is changed in comparison with unbounded suspensions. The hydrodynamic treatment will be qualitative in nature with animated gif illustrations of the simulation results
