This capstone project involves the study of the fluid dynamical problem of thin bilayer films. There has been a recent experimental study on the Ag-Au bimetallic nanoparticles produced by the laser dewetting of Ag/Au bilayer films on a substrate. The aim of this activity here is to develop a physical understanding of final properties of bimetallic systems, and to enhance the knowledge of the structure and morphology of the nanoparticles. Of particular focus of this study here is to analyze the differences in the composition and the final size distribution of the nanoparticles using direct numerical simulations. While there are many parameters involve in the problem setting, here we only focus on changing the relative thickness of each layer, changing the relative viscosity of each layer, as well as relative viscosity of the surrounding, and finally varying the equilibrium contact angle.
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