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This fluid dynamics video presents experiments and simulations of gravity-driven particulate jets in viscous fluids at low Reynolds number. An initially straight jet is shown to develop varicose modulations of its diameter as it sediments…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Florent Pignatel , Maxime Nicolas , Elisabeth Guazzelli , David Saintillan

Inertial particle data from three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of particle-laden homogeneous isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds number are analyzed using Voronoi tessellation of the particle positions, considering different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-12 Thibault Oujia , Keigo Matsuda , Kai Schneider

We present a framework for calculating the surface density profile of a stain deposited by a drop with a receding contact line. Unlike a pinned drop, a receding drop pushes fluid towards its interior, continuously deposits mass across its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-10 Julian Freed-Brown

We analyse the tumbling of small non-spherical, axisymmetric particles in random and turbulent flows. We compute the orientational dynamics in terms of a perturbation expansion in the Kubo number, and obtain the tumbling rate in terms of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 K. Gustavsson , J. Einarsson , B. Mehlig

Most, but not all, liquid crystals tend to align when subject to shear flow, while most nematic polymeric liquid crystals undergo a tumbling instability, where the director rotate with the flow. The reasons of this instability remain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Stefano S. Turzi

A falling liquid drop, after impact on a rigid substrate, deforms and spreads, owing to the normal reaction force. Subsequently, if the substrate is non-wetting, the drop retracts and then jumps off. As we show here, not only is the impact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-01 Bin Zhang , Vatsal Sanjay , Songlin Shi , Yinggang Zhao , Cunjing Lv , Xi-Qiao , Detlef Lohse

The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force exceeds the weight of the droplet, the droplet remains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Stéphane Dorbolo , Floriane Weyer , Alexandre Delory , Apurav Tambe , Zhao Pan

The tumbling of a rigid rod in a shear flow is analyzed in the high viscosity limit. Following Burgers, the Master Equation is derived for the probability distribution of the orientation of the rod. The equation contains one dimensionless…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. M. J. van Leeuwen , H. W. J. Blöte

We analyse numerically the linear stability of a liquid metal flow in a rectangular duct with perfectly electrically conducting walls subject to a uniform transverse magnetic field. A non-standard three dimensional vector stream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-26 Jānis Priede , Svetlana Aleksandrova , Sergei Molokov

Evolution of a suspension drop entrained by Poiseuille flow is studied numerically at a low Reynolds number. A suspension drop is modelled by a cloud of many non-touching particles, initially randomly distributed inside a spherical volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Krzysztof Sadlej , Eligiusz Wajnryb , Maria L. Ekiel-Jeżewska

The rheology of granular particles in an inclined plane geometry is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. The flow--no-flow boundary is determined for piles of varying heights over a range of inclination angles $\theta$. Three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Leonardo E. Silbert , James W. Landry , Gary S. Grest

Liquid drops that are pinned to solid surfaces by contact-angle hysteresis can be dislodged by wind forcing. When this occurs at high Reynolds numbers, substantial drop-interface oscillations precede depinning. It has been hypothesized that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-11 Roger L. Simon, , Edward B. White

A liquid drop impacting a rigid substrate undergoes deformation and spreading due to normal reaction forces, which are counteracted by surface tension. On a non-wetting substrate, the drop subsequently retracts and takes off. Our recent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-31 Vatsal Sanjay , Bin Zhang , Cunjing Lv , Detlef Lohse

Natural or industrial flows of a fluid often involve droplets or bubbles of another fluid, pinned by physical or chemical impurities or by the roughness of the bounding walls. Here we study numerically one drop pinned on a circular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-15 Ludovic De Maio , Francois Dunlop

We investigate the dynamics of drop impact on a thin liquid film at short times in order to identify the mechanisms of splashing formation. Using numerical simulations and scaling analysis, we show that the splashing formation depends both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Christophe Josserand , Pascal Ray , Stéphane Zaleski

Firstly, we get the completely bouncing criteria Cr for droplet on moving substrate. The bouncing without splashing condition is $\mathrm{Cr}>1$. Then, we mainly research the effect of wind field for droplet, and get the completely bouncing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-11 Chengwu Liu

The star-shaped oscillation of water drops has been observed in various physical situations with different sources of vertical excitation. Previous studies apply a quasi-2D model to analyze the resonance frequency and only consider the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Jiahao Dong , Yuping Liu , Qian Xu , Yinlong Wang , Sihui Wang

A parametric numerical study of three-dimensional instability of steady flows in a helical pipe of arbitrary curvature and torsion is carried out. The computations are performed by a numerical approach verified against independent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-04 Alexander Gelfgat

The rich structures arising from the impingement dynamics of water drops onto solid substrates at high velocities are investigated numerically. Current methodologies in the aircraft industry estimating water collection on aircraft surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-04 Radu Cimpeanu , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

On the surface of a vibrating liquid bath, instead of coalescing, a drop will continually bounce on a thin film of air between the drop and the free surface, giving rise to rich chaotic dynamics and quantum analog behavior. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-18 Lebo Molefe , Tomas Fullana , François Gallaire , John M. Kolinski