Director of research at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission of France (CEA).
Affiliation:
Wetting, drying and contact line dynamics
Time-averaged approach to the dewetting problem at evaporation, Zhang, X. & Nikolayev, V. S. EPL, 2023.
Dewetting acceleration by evaporation,
Zhang, X. & Nikolayev, V. S. J. Fluid Mech., 2022 vol. 948, A49.
Dewetting accelerated by evaporation, Proc. 16th Int. Conf. Heat Transfer Fluid Mech. Thermodynamics (HEFAT-ATE 2022), 2022, 311 – 316.
Evaporation effect on the contact angle and contact line dynamics,
Zhang, X. & Nikolayev, V. S.Nikolayev, V. S.In: Marengo, M. & De Coninck, J. (ed.), The Surface Wettability Effect on Phase Change, Chapter 6, Springer, 2022, 133 – 187.
Liquid film dynamics with immobile contact line during meniscus oscillation,
Zhang, X. & Nikolayev, V. S. J. Fluid Mech., 2021 vol. 923, A4.
Thin wedge evaporation/condensation controlled by the vapor dynamics in the atmosphere,
Doumenc, F., Janecek, V. & Nikolayev, V. S., Eur. Phys. J. E, 2018 vol. 41(12), 147.
3D reconstruction of dynamic liquid film shape by optical grid deflection method,
Fourgeaud, L., Ercolani, E., Duplat, J., Gully, P. & Nikolayev, V. S., Eur. Phys. J. E, 2018 vol. 41 (1), 5.
Loussert, C., Doumenc, F., Salmon, J.-B., Nikolayev, V. S. & Guerrier, B. Role of Vapor Mass Transfer in Flow Coating of Colloidal Dispersions in the Evaporative Regime, Langmuir, 2017 vol. 33(49), 14078 – 14086.
Fourgeaud, L., Ercolani, E., Duplat, J., Gully, P. & Nikolayev, V. S. Evaporation-driven dewetting of a liquid film, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2016, vol. 1, 041901.
Janeček, V. V., Doumenc, F., Guerrier, B. & Nikolayev, V. S. Can hydrodynamic contact line paradox be solved by evaporation-condensation?, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2015 vol. 460, 329 – 338.
Iliev, S., Pesheva, N. & Nikolayev, V. S. Contact angle hysteresis and pinning at periodic defects in statics, Phys. Rev. E, 2014 vol. 90, 012406.
Janeček, V., Andreotti, B., Pražák, D., Bárta, T. & Nikolayev, V. S. Moving contact line of a volatile fluid, Phys. Rev. E, 2013 vol. 88, 060404
Iliev, S., Pesheva, N., Nikolayev, V.S. Dynamic study of the contact angle hysteresis in the presence of periodic defects, Proc. 11th National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2-5 Sept. 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria. Iliev S., Pesheva N., Nikolayev, V.S. Dynamic modelling of the deformed contact line under partial wetting conditions: quasi-static approach, Europ. Phys. J. Spec. Topics, 166(1), 181 – 184 (2009).
Iliev S., Pesheva N., Nikolayev, V.S. Dynamic modelling of contact line deformation: comparison with experiment, Phys. Rev. E78, 021605 (2008).
Iliev S., Pesheva N., Nikolayev, V.S. Quasi-static motion of the contact line in the Wilhelmy-plate geometry: contact line dissipation model, Proc. 36th Spring Conference “Mathematics and education in mathematics” of the Union of Bulgarian mathematicians, St. Konstantin and Elena resort, Varna, April 2-6, 2007, 246 – 251.
Nikolayev, V.S., Gavrilyuk, S.L. & Gouin, H., Modelling of the moving deformed triple contact line: influence of the fluid inertia, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 302(2), 605 – 612 (2006).
Narhe, R., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V. Dynamics of drop coalescence on a surface: the role of initial conditions and surface properties, International Journal of Thermophysics 26(6), 1743 – 1757 (2005).
Iliev, S., Pesheva, N., Nikolayev, V.S. Quasi-static relaxation of arbitrarily shaped sessile drops, Physical Review E 72, 011606 (2005).
Nikolayev, V.S. Dynamics and depinning of the triple contact line in the presence of periodic surface defects, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter17(13), 2111 – 2119 (2005).
Narhe, R., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V. Contact Line Dynamics in Drop Coalescence and Spreading, Langmuir 20, 1213 – 1221 (2004).
Nikolayev, V.S., Beysens, D. Equation of motion of the triple contact line along an inhomogeneous surface, Europhysics Letters 64(6), 763 – 768 (2003).
Nikolayev, V.S., Beysens, D.A. Relaxation of non-spherical sessile drops towards equilibrium, Physical Review E 65, 046135 (2002).
Andrieu, C., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V.S., Pomeau, Y. Coalescence of sessile drops, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 453, 427 – 438 (2002).