What is it about?
Accurately predicting the capillary deformations of fluid interfaces and the shape of droplets wetting curved or heterogeneous solid substrates requires complex calculations. This paper introduces "Interface Equilibrator", a software exploiting a novel methodology to perform these calculations. Thanks to its user-friendly graphic-user-interface with an intuitive and interactive three-dimensional computer-aided-design environment, "Interface Equilibrator" can easily be used also without a theoretical or computational background.
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Why is it important?
Capillarity and wetting play a fundamental role in a broad spectrum of scientific and technological applications. The capability to investigate these phenomena is crucial for developing and innovating such applications. "Interface Equilibrator" provides scientists with a ready-to-use platform to simulate these phenomena, allowing them to focus on the results rather than on the methodology to attain these.
Perspectives
Thanks to "Interface Equilibrator", calculations that before could be performed by a small group of scientists are now available to a much broader audience. Ultimately, this translates into faster development and innovation for all of those scientific and technological applications where capillarity and wetting are involved.
Dr. Giuseppe Soligno
Soligno Technologies
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This page is a summary of: Interface Equilibrator: Numerical solutions to capillarity and wetting equilibrium and quasi-equilibrium problems, Physics of Fluids, December 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0242480.
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