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A millimetre-size superhydrophobic sphere impacting on the free surface of a quiescent bath can be propelled back into the air by capillary effects and dynamic fluid forces, whilst transferring part of its energy to the fluid. We report the…

Droplet impact is a fascinating phenomenon that occurs when a liquid droplet collides with a surface. It is not only a fundamental area of scientific inquiry but also has practical implications across many industries and natural systems.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Shubham Ganar , Arindam Das

Experimental and modelling study is presented for the effect of a wide range of liquid viscosities on the droplet impact on a smooth solid surface at atmospheric pressure. A non-monotonic variation of threshold between droplet deposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Lei Yang , Zhonghong Li , Tao Yang , Yicheng Chi , Peng Zhang

Droplet impact behavior has attracted much attention recently due to its academic significance and diverse industrial applications. This study employs the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the impact of a droplet on a hydrophobic plate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Juanyong Wang , Lei Wang , Jiangxu Huang , Dinggen Li

We investigate the dynamics of micron-scale drops pushed across a hydrophobic or superhydrophobic surface. The velocity profile across the drop varies from quadratic to linear with increasing height, indicating a crossover from a sliding to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-24 B. M. Mognetti , H. Kusumaatmaja , J. M. Yeomans

The impact dynamics of viscoelastic droplets on solid surfaces play a critical role in numerous applications, including inkjet printing, spray coating, and microfluidics, where precise control of spreading, retraction, and rebound is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mahmood Mousavi , Parisa Tayerani , Sebastian Stephens , Cadence Ruskowski , Bok Jik Lee

Super hydrophobic surfaces have been the focus of research in the recent years.One of the reasons for this is the self cleaning property of these surfaces which emerges from the ability of the droplets to roll freely over them.However…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-30 Indrajit P. Wadgaonkar , T. Sundararajan , Sarit K. Das

A liquid droplet impacting on a solvophobic surface normally rebounds. The rebound is suppressed by a small amount of dissolved polymer. In this work, using multi-body dissipative particle dynamics simulations, two anti-rebound mechanisms,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-13 Eunsang Lee , Hari Krishna Chilukoti , Florian Müller-Plathe

Droplet impact in airflow environments is ubiquitous in nature and industry, making the understanding of this multiphase behavior crucial for technologies such as anti-icing and spray cooling. In this study, the dynamics of droplet impact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yiqing Guo , Xiaomin Wu , Jingchun Min

Intuitively, slow droplets stick to a surface and faster droplets splash or bounce. However, recent work suggests that on non-wetting surfaces, whether microdroplets stick or bounce depends only on their size and fluid properties, but not…

Drop impact events on wet granular bed show rich variety by changing the substrate composition. We observe the drop impact onto dry/wet granular substrates with different grain size (50-400 {\mu}m) and water content (0-22 vol %). Although…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-12 Wei Zhang , Hiroaki Katsuragi , Ken Yamamoto

An experimental study of liquid drop impacts on a granular medium is proposed. Four fluids were used to vary physical properties: pure distilled water, water with glycerol at 2 concentrations 1:1 and 1:2 v/v and water with Tween 20 at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-14 Elyes Nefzaoui , Olivier Skurtys

The present article highlights the role of non-Newtonian (elastic) effects on the droplet impact phenomenology at temperatures considerably higher than the boiling point, especially at or above the Leidenfrost regime. The Leidenfrost point…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-17 Purbarun Dhar , Soumya Ranjan Mishra , Ajay Gairola , Devranjan Samanta

The directional movement and rebound behaviours of two droplets simultaneously impacting a designed flat surface with wettability difference is investigated based on the three-dimensional multi-relaxation-time pseudopotential lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Jiangxu Huanga , Kun Hea , Lei Wang

Post impingement morphology and dynamics of water droplets on convex cylindrical surfaces has been explored experimentally. Droplet impact and post-impact feature studies have been conducted on hydrophillic and superhydrophobic cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Gargi Khurana , Nilamani Sahoo , Purbarun Dhar

We investigate droplet deformation following laser-pulse impact at low Weber numbers (We ~ 0.1-100). Droplet dynamics can be characterized by two key parameters: the impact We number and the width, W, of the distribution of the impact force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-31 M. Kharbedia , H. L. França , H. K. Schubert , D. J. Engels , M. Jalaal , O. O. Versolato

Even a small fraction of nanoparticles in fluids affects the splashing behavior of a droplet upon impact on a smooth surface. Nanofluid drop impact onto a smooth sapphire substrate is experimentally investigated over wide ranges of Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-13 Yunus Tansu Aksoy , Pinar Eneren , Erin Koos , Maria Rosaria Vetrano

A small amount of polymer dissolved in a droplet suppresses droplet rebound when it impinges on a supersolvophobic surface. This work investigates impacting dynamics of a droplet of dilute polymer solution depending on the molecular weight…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Eunsang Lee , Hari Krishna Chilukoti , Florian Müller-Plathe

A numerical model is proposed to simulate the adhesion, compression, and subsequent detachment of a micro-liter droplet from a superhydrophobic surface composed of chemically homogeneous pillars arranged in a periodic fashion, replicating a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pawan Kumar , Joseph D. Berry

The paper reports on the comparison of the wetting properties of super-hydrophobic silicon nanowires (NWs), using drop impact impalement and electrowetting (EW) experiments. A correlation between the resistance to impalement on both EW and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-05 P. Brunet , F. Lapierre , V. Thomy , Y. Coffinier , R. Boukherroub