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Micro/nanoliter droplet is capable of achieving versatile applications with tiny volume and substantial surface energy, which is a big plus over bulk liquid. Yet, the contradiction of elaborate manipulation and enough power is still a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Han Zhang , Jun Yang , Yun Zhou , Jianfeng Zheng , Yong Cheng , Bichao Bai , Guoxin Zhang , Yisheng Lv

The aim of this study is to derive accurate models for quantities characterizing the dynamics of droplets of non-vanishing viscosity in capillaries. In particular, we propose models for the uniform-film thickness separating the droplet from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-03 Gioele Balestra , Lailai Zhu , François Gallaire

Granular materials such as sand, powders, and grains are omnipresent in daily life, industrial applications, and earth-science [1]. When unperturbed, they form stable structures that resemble the ones of other amorphous solids like metallic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-19 Ye Yuan , Zhikun Zeng , Yi Xing , Houfei Yuan , Shuyang Zhang , Walter Kob , Yujie Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) under raindrop conditions suffers from severe occlusions and optical distortions caused by raindrop contamination on the camera lens, substantially degrading reconstruction quality. Existing benchmarks typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhiqiang Teng , Tingting Chen , Beibei Lin , Zifeng Yuan , Xuanyi Li , Xuanyu Zhang , Shunli Zhang

We present a highly accurate numerical method based on a boundary integral formulation and the leaky dielectric model to study the dynamics of surfactant-covered drops in the presence of an applied electric field. The method can simulate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Chiara Sorgentone , Anna-Karin Tornberg , Petia Vlahovska

We demonstrate a non-stereoscopic, video-based particle tracking system with optical tweezers to study fluid flow in 3D in the vicinity of glass nanopores. In particular, we used the Quadrant Interpolation algorithm to extend our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jeffrey Mc Hugh , Alice L. Thorneywork , Kurt Andresen , Ulrich F. Keyser

The conventional reverse fill/flush flow modulation for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography requires a bleed capillary column to be connected to the outlet of the modulator channel. The purpose of this capillary, that does not…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Aleksandra Lelevic

Determining whether a candidate crystalline material is thermodynamically stable depends on identifying its true ground-state structure, a central challenge in computational materials science. We introduce CrystalGRW, a diffusion-based…

We study drop impacts on immiscible viscous liquid pool and investigate the formation of droplet surface craters using experimental and theoretical analysis. We attribute the formation of air craters to the rapid deceleration of the droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Durbar Roy , Sophia M , Saptarshi Basu

This paper investigates the properties of a three dimensional shear flow overpassing a hemispherical droplet resting on a plane wall. The exact solution is computed as a function of the viscosity ratio between the droplet and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-27 K. Sugiyama , M. Sbragaglia

Manipulating the shape of a liquid droplet is essential for a wide range of applications in medicine and industry. However, existing methods are typically limited to generating simple shapes, such as ellipses, or rely on predefined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 P. A. Diluka Harischandra , Quan Zhou

In this article, we construct a novel 1D-model of microfluidic laminar flows in tapered circular and rectangular channels assuming the flow in channels fully developed. In the model, we take into account the inertance and dynamic pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-14 Leonid Pekker

The method of formation of nanoparticle aggregates such as high-coverage spherical shells of microspheres or 3-D micro crystals grown in the geometry unaffected by a substrate is described. In the reported experiment, the evaporation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-05 GGennadiy Derkachov , Krystyna Kolwas , Daniel Jakubczyk , Marcin Zientara , Maciej Kolwas

A generalized boundary integral method is developed to investigate the rheology of multiple emulsions with orderly structures up to n layers and up to mi droplets in the i-th layer in microchannels with various geometries. Recently, as fine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-26 Jingtao Wang , Jinxia Liu , Junjie Han , Jing Guan

In this paper, the evaporation of neighbouring multi-component droplets or rivulets - often found in applications such as inkjet printing, spray cooling, and pesticide delivery - is studied numerically and theoretically. The proximity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Pim J. Dekker , Duarte Rocha , Christian Diddens , Detlef Lohse

Molecular crystal structure prediction represents a grand challenge in computational chemistry due to large sizes of constituent molecules and complex intra- and intermolecular interactions. While generative modeling has revolutionized…

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

Diffusion-based microfluidic gradient generators (DMGGs) are essential for various in-vitro studies due to their ability to provide a convection-free concentration gradient. However, these systems, often referred to as membrane-based DMGGs,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Vahid Khandan , Ryan C. Chiechi , Elisabeth Verpoorte , Klaus Mathwig

There is a rapidly growing interest in controlling consistency across multiple generated images using diffusion models. Among various methods, recent works have found that simply manipulating attention modules by concatenating features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiaojiao Fan , Haotian Xue , Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

This work has explored interface evolution and pinch-off mechanism of the droplet formation in two-phase flow through cross-flow microfluidic device. The two-dimensional mathematical model equations have been solved using the finite element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-10 Akepogu Venkateshwarlu , Ram Prakash Bharti