Seminar series
Date
Tue, 03 May 2016
Time
13:00 -
13:30
Location
C5
Speaker
Matthew Saxton
Organisation
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
We consider the motion of a thin liquid drop on a smooth substrate as the drop evaporates into an inert gas. Many experiments suggest that, at times close to the drop’s extinction, the drop radius scales as the square root of the time remaining until extinction. However, other experiments observe slightly different scaling laws. We use the method of matched asymptotic expansions to investigate whether this different behaviour is systematic or an artefact of experiment.