DFG Priority Program SPP 1164

Nano- & Microfluidics:

Bridging the Gap between
Molecular Motion and Continuum Flow

Noisy hydrodynamics at fluid interfaces beyond Navier-Stokes equation


Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Erlangen

Summary of the project


Other people working on the project


Dr. Thorsten Hiester
Dipl. Phys. Christian Goll
Susan Sporer

Homepage of the group


http://theorie1.physik.uni-erlangen.de/


Expertise of the group

  •  theoretical and computational physics

Publications of the group connected with nano- or microfluidics


  1. D. G. A. L. Aarts, M. Schmidt, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, K. Mecke
    Microscopy on Thermal Capillary Waves in Demixed Colloid-Polymer Systems
    Advances in Solid State Physics 45, 15-27 (2005).
  2. K. Mecke and M. Rauscher
    On thermal fluctuations in thin film flow,
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S3515-S3522 (2005).
  3. G. Grün,  K. Mecke, and M. Rauscher
    Thin-film flow influenced by thermal noise
    J. Stat. Phys. 122, 1261- 1291 (2006).
  4. T. Hiester, S. Dietrich, and K. Mecke
    Microscopic theory for interface fluctuations in binary liquid mixtures
    in press, J. Chem. Phys. (2006).