A gas-liquid interface involves complex physics along with unknown phenomena related to thermodynamics, electromagnetics, hydrodynamics, and heat and mass transfer. Each phenomenon has various characteristic time and space scales, which makes detailed understanding of the interfacial phenomena very complex. Therefore, modeling the gasliquid interface is a key issue for numerical research on mul...

Impact of drops on the surface of an immiscible liquid is studied. We show that in addition to the commonly-observed lens structure at the air-liquid interface, drops released from critical heights above the target liquid can sustain the impact and at the end maintain a spherical ball-shape configuration above the surface despite undergoing large deformation. The existence of this metastable st...

The dynamics of swimming microorganisms is strongly affected by solid-liquid and air-liquid interfaces. In this paper, we characterize the motion of both single bacteria and microcolonies at an air-liquid interface. Both of them follow circular trajectories. Single bacteria preferentially show a counter-clockwise motion, in agreement with previous experimental and theoretical findings. Instead,...

By molecular dynamics simulations, the boundary condition for the Boltzmann equation at a vapor-liquid interface is found to be the product of three one-dimensional Maxwellian distributions for the three velocity components of vapor molecules and a factor including a well-defined condensation coefficient. The Maxwellian distribution for the velocity component normal to the interface is characte...