Interfacial Phenomena
MIT's graduate course on fluid systems governed by surface and interfacial tension. Lectures cover curvature pressure and Marangoni stress across drops and bubbles, soap films, minimal surfaces, wetting, water-repellency, surfactants, Marangoni flows, capillary origami, and contact line dynamics. The course builds physical intuition alongside the mathematics needed to model these phenomena, drawing on examples from everyday fluid behavior to specialized engineering applications. Materials include lecture notes and problem sets from MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access with no enrollment or certificate cost. Suited to students with a background in fluid mechanics who want a focused treatment of capillarity and interface physics rather than a general fluids survey.