Speaker:

Huaxiong Huang, York University

Title: 

Extensional Flows of Viscous Threads

Abstract: 

In this talk we will discuss the drawing of viscous threads with
thermal effects. We will use glass microelectrodes and optical fibers
as two examples and focus on the nonlinear coupling of flow and
temperature equations. We will show that asymptotic analysis can
greatly simplify the computation and provide useful insights for the
understanding of these physical processes. It also leads to some
interesting nonlinear equations which could be subjects of further
mathematical analysis.

This talk is based on joint work with Jonathan Wylie (City Univ of
HK), Robert Miura (NJIT) and Peter Howell (Oxford).