Ehud Yariv
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Seminar Information
*Zoom side dropped due to technical difficulties*
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479
Seminar Recording NOT Available
Superhydrophobic surfaces, formed by air entrapment within the cavities of hydrophobic solid substrates, offer a promising potential for hydrodynamic drag reduction. In several of the prototypical surface geometries the flows are two-dimensional, governed by Laplace’s equation in the longitudinal problem and the biharmonic equation in the transverse problem. Moreover, low-drag configurations are typically associated with singular limits. Thus, the analysis of liquid slippage past superhydrophobic surfaces naturally invites the use of both singular-perturbation methods and conformal-mapping techniques. I will discuss the combined application of these methodologies to several emerging problems in the field.
Ehud Yariv got his PhD in applied mathematics (2001) from the Technion. He did his post-doc at MIT, working with Howard Brenner. He joined the Technion faculty at 2004, where he is a professor at the mathematic department. At the present he is a visiting professor at Princeton.