EPJ ST Special Issue: IMA12 - Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes

Guest Editors: Santiago Madruga, Carolina Mendoza

We invite contributions to a Special Issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ-ST) dedicated to Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes This special issue will highlight recent advances in interfacial fluid dynamics, featuring research related to the 12th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA12), organized in Madrid, Spain, in June 2025.

The IMA conferences have established a renowned global platform in the field of interfacial fluid dynamics. They serve as a forum for scientists, engineers, students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members from diverse backgrounds to share, discuss, and disseminate cutting-edge developments in interfacial phenomena and related transport processes. IMA12, held in Madrid (2025), continues the tradition of previous successful editions in Bordeaux, France (2023); Iasi, Romania (2022); Guilin, China (2018); Bad Honnef, Germany (2016); Vienna, Austria (2014); Haifa, Israel (2012); Florence, Italy (2010); Tokyo, Japan (2008); Gainesville, FL, USA (2006); Brussels, Belgium (2004); and Gießen, Germany (2001).

The Marangoni effects represent an important aspect of the conference, but the conference encompasses a broader spectrum of interfacial-related phenomena. This Special Issue seeks original research papers and review articles that explore the theoretical, numerical, modeling, and experimental aspects of interfacial fluid dynamics and their applications in diverse physical systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Surfactants and particle suspensions
  • Instabilities
  • Vibrated systems and Faraday waves
  • Droplet dynamics and spreading
  • Wetting and contact angle dynamics
  • Fluids under microgravity conditions
  • Liquid bridges
  • Evaporation and condensation phenomena
  • Thermocapillary flows
  • Electrohydrodynamics and electric fields
  • Solid-liquid phase change
  • Marangoni and photo-Marangoni effects
  • Multiphase flows and phase-field modeling
  • Solutocapillary flows
  • Surface waves
  • Acoustics and optofluidics
  • Thin and soap films
  • Binary and multicomponent mixtures
  • Coating processes
  • Microfluidics
  • Applications in material processing
  • Bio-fluid systems
  • Geophysical flows

Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

Articles should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ ST via the submission system, and should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “IMA12 - Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes”.

More detailed author information including paper types can be found in the Submission Guidelines. For the preparation of the manuscripts a special latex template (preferably single-column layout) is available here.

Guest Editors:

Prof. Santiago Madruga
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada a la Ingeniería Aeroespacial, ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Prof. Carolina Mendoza
Departamento de Matemáticas y Física, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Santa Cruz de Marcenado, 27, 28015 Madrid, Spain
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