Student were assigned to do a course project on a subject of their choosing. The only constraint was that the subject had to involve the theme of the course (surface tension). Students were encouraged to pursue a subject that is not closely related to their doctoral research.
The course project was worth 50% of the course grade: 30% of it being based on the final paper, 20% on a 15 minute final presentation.
Listed below are the titles of the twenty course projects done by the students in the class, categorized according to 5 themes.
Biocapillarity
Surface forces and the origin of life
Optimizing the shape of the hummingbird’s tongue
Adhesion and de-adhesion mechanisms of the beetle
Biomimicry, and the Marangoni cocktail boat
Drops and Bubbles
Modeling cavitation damage from shock-induced bubble collapse
Application of cavitation bubbles to transdermal drug delivery
Drop rebound from textured superhydrophobic surfaces
Drop impact: splashing on smooth hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces
Capillary Instability
Slurping: Interfacial Instabilities in Narrow Tubes
The Break-up of a Fluid Jet in a Gaseous Cross-flow
Creating Drops by Cylinder Retraction
The role of surface tension in carbon dioxide sequestration
Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces
Promoting Slip with Hydrophobically Modified Channels
Hysteresis and Contact Line Motion on Superhydrophobic Micro-textured Surfaces
From Coffee Rings to Self-assembled Nanoparticle Trees
Creating Micro-textured Surfaces via Solution Spraying
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs
Modeling the Bouncing-Walking Transition for Drops Suspended on a Vibrating Fluid Bath
Wave-particle Coupling and Walking Droplets
The PDF of Walking Droplets
A Ferromagnetic-hydrodynamic Analog to Quantum Spin
