Gas and Liquid Flows at Surfaces
A special issue of Surfaces (ISSN 2571-9637).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 339
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The focus of this Special Issue of Surfaces is on the recent advances in the realm of gas and liquid flows at surfaces. Modelling fluid flows past a surface is a general problem in science and engineering and requires unfolding the nature of the fluid motion at the interface. The interest of fluid motion changes from the no-slip condition to the finite slip at the surface while focusing on different scales, which provides the simulation-for-design capabilities. Particularly, the fluid flow past the surfaces in highly confined geometries is attracting the interests of various researchers. For example, the methane flows in micro/nano-pathways in shale gas recovery and the water flows through carbon nanotubes enhancing huge mass flow rate. These scales require the computing capacity of higher resolution such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for obtaining the molecularly accurate dynamics information. Differently from the liquid flow rate at the macroscopic scale that is determined only by its configuration, the permeability of nanochannels depends significantly on the amount of liquid friction at surfaces. Theories of the solid-liquid interface that plays a dominant role in friction mechanism for water on carbon-based materials are still lacked.
This Special Issue is to open the way for a state-of-the-art investigation of hydrodynamic flows at surfaces. Our Special Issue calls for the development of new methods for exploiting such complex interfacial systems. Theoretical predictions, numerical simulations, and experimental measurement (i.e., flow measurement techniques) are all welcome.
Dr. Jianfei Xie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gas/liquid flows past membranes
- gas/liquid flows past nanoengineered surfaces
- non-equilibrium gas transport phenomenon near solid walls
- water flow on carbon-based materials
- gas-surface interactions and slip flows
- micro- and nano-scale flows and heat transfer
- shale gases and porous media flows
- flow measurement—types & applications of flow sensors
