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Nina Christova Pesheva

 Position: Associate Professor
Department: Matematical Modeling and Numerical Simulations
Room: 304, 105
Phone: +359 2 979 6439, +359 2 870 54 25
E-mail: nina@imbm.bas.bg

Scientific degrees, institution, year:

M.Sc., Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1981.

Ph.D., Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, USA,1989.

Fields of Research:

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, phase transitions, driven diffusive systems, self-organized criticality, Monte Carlo simulation methods, wetting and spreading

 

Recent publications:

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, Dynamic Meniscus Profile Method for Detertmination of the Dynamic Contact Angle in the Wilhelmy Plate Geometry, (submitted for publication)

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva Dimitar Iliev, Asymptotic solutions for the relaxation of the contact line in the Wilhelmy-plate geometry: the contact line dissipation approach, Phys. Rev E 81, 2010, 011607.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva Vadim Nikolayev, Dynamic Modeling of the Deformed Contact Line Under  Partial Wetting Conditions - Quasi-Static Approach , European Physical Journal 166, 2009, p. 181.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva Vadim Nikolayev, Dynamic Modeling of a Contact Line Deformation: Comparison with Experiment, Physical Review E 78, 2008, 021605.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva Vadim Nikolayev, Dynamic Modeling of the Deformed Contact Line Under Partial Wetting Conditions - Quasi-Static Approach, Proceedings of the 7th Coating Symposium: Recent advances in Coating, Drying and Dynamical Wetting, September 12-14, 2007, Paris, pp. 48-49.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva Vadim Nikolayev, Quasi-Static Motion of the Contact Line in the Wilhelmy Plate Geometry: Contact Line Dissipation Model, Proceedings of the 36 Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, April 2-6, 2007, pp. 246-251.

  • N. Pesheva, I. Stefanov, S. Slavchev, Application of the percolation theory to water-gas flows in artificial soils: Part II. Invasion percolation model with randomly distributed extraction sites, 11th Workshop on transport phenomena in two-phase flow, 2006.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, Nonaxisymmetric drop shape analysis and its application for determination of the local contact angles, J. Colloid and Interface Sci. 301 (2), 2006, pp. 677-684.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, On the quasi-static relaxation of a drop in a combined model of dissipation, Langmuir 22, 2006, p. 1580.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, Asymptotic solutions of the quasi-static relaxation of liquid drops taking into account the dissipation during the contact line motion, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 35, 2005, pp. 101-110.

  • Jordan Brankov, Nina Pesheva, Nadezhda Bunzarova, One-Dimensional Traffic Flow Models: Theory and Computer Simulations, Proc. of the 10th Jubilee National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Varna, 13-16 September 2005, pp. 442-456.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, Asymptotic Solutions for the Quasi-Static Relaxation of Liquid Drops, Proc. of the 10th Jubilee National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Varna, 13-16 September 2005. pp. 479-482.

  • Stanimir Iliev, Nina Pesheva, Vadim Nikolayev, Quasistatic relaxation of arbitrarily shaped sessile drops, Phys. Rev. E 72, 2005, 011606.

  • Nina Pesheva and Joel De Coninck, Drop spreading on heterogeneous substrates via Monte Carlo simulations, Phys. Rev. E 70, 2004, 046102.

  • Jordan Brankov, Nina Pesheva, Nadezhda Bunzarova, Totally asymmetric exclusion process on chains with a double chain section in the middle: Computer simulations and a simple theory, Phys. Rev. E 69, 2004, 066128.

  • S. Iliev, N. Pesheva, Wetting Properties of Well Structured Heterogeneous Substrates, Langmuir 19, 2003, pp. 9923-9931.

  • N. Pesheva, S. Iliev, Numerical Verification of the Cassie’s Equation for Well Defined Heterogeneous Substrates with “Mesa” defects, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 33, 2003, pp. 29-40.

  • Nina Pesheva, Gleb Oshanin, Monolayer Spreading on a Chemically Heterogeneous Substrate, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physiochem. and Eng. Asp. 206, 2002, 2349. available also as a preprint: cond-mat/02045511.

  • Jordan Brankov and Nina Pesheva, Exact Density Profiles for the Fully Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Discrete-Time Dynamics on Semi-Infinite Chains, Phys. Rev E 63, 2001, 046111. available also as a preprint: cond-mat/0011370.

  • Jordan Brankov, Nina Pesheva and Nikola Valkov, Exact results for a fully asymmetric exclusion process with sequential dynamics and open boundaries, Phys. Rev E 61, 2000, pp. 2300-2319. available also as a preprint: aps1999jun02_002 at http://publish.aps.org/eprint/

Recent Projects:


  • Enhancement of the quality of training and building of a competitive scientific potential in the field of micro- and nano-mechanics, project BG051PO001/07/3.3-02/55 of the Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria, Operational Programme Human Resources Development of the ESF, project leader: Assoc. Prof. Detelina Ignatova, 2008-2009.

  • Mathematical modeling of transport of fluid and nutrients in capillary-porous media – project No. KI-1-02/03 of the Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria, project leader: Assoc. Prof. Slavtcho Slavtchev, 2003-2007.

 


Modified date:29-11-2011