The accurate computation of thin film flows and the motion of droplets on real functional surfaces.

流体在含有微尺度地形和/或化学不均匀性的真实的（人造的和天然存在的）功能表面上的流动在整个自然界、工程和精密制造工业中是普遍存在的。在这个抽水项目中，研究人员用于分析这些问题的世界领先的软件算法将被修改，以利用大规模并行高性能计算（HPC）架构和资源。这将有助于第一次进行实际表面上的流动计算，使预测能力的基本限制，例如液滴扩散和聚结的时间尺度，能够得到调查和量化。对这类重要的流动问题的物理见解将对学术研究人员，本书将介绍在涂层工艺基础和液滴运动领域工作的技术人员、在不同领域工作的工程师和科学家，如微电子元件和医疗诊断用微流体设备的生产，以及那些对开发更可持续的化学农药替代品感兴趣的人。

Fluid flow over real (man-made and naturally occurring) functional surfaces containing micro-scale topographic and/or chemical heterogeneities are ubiquitous throughout nature, engineering and the precision manufacturing industries. During this pump-priming project, the investigators' world leading software algorithms for analysing such problems will be modified to exploit massively parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures and resources. This will facilitate the computation of flows over realistic surfaces to be carried out for the first time, enabling the fundamental limits of predictive capabilities, such as those on the time-scales of droplet spreading and coalescence, to be investigated and quantified.The physical insight gained into this important class of flow problems will be of generic benefit both to academic researchers, working in the fields of coating process fundamentals and droplet motion, to engineers and scientists working in diverse fields such as in the production of micro-electronic components and microfluidic devices for medical diagnostics, and to those interested in developing more sustainable alternatives to chemical pesticides.