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After a raindrop impacts on a granular bed, a crater is formed as both drop and target deform. After an initial, transient, phase in which the maximum crater depth is reached, the crater broadens outwards until a final steady shape is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-01 Rianne de Jong , Song-Chuan Zhao , Devaraj van der Meer

Bubbles bursting at the surface of the ocean produce drops that heavily influence ocean-atmosphere interactions. One of the mechanisms through which drops are formed is called jet drop production, where the collapse of the bubble cavity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Tristan Aurégan , Noé Daniel , Megan Mazzatenta , Luc Deike

The process of drop formation from a nozzle can be seen in many natural systems and engineering applications. Here, we investigate the formation of a liquid droplet from a wettable nozzle. The behavior of a drop is complicated due to an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Brian Chang , Gary Nave , Sunghwan Jung

Detonation-based propulsion devices, such as rotating detonation engines (RDEs), must be able to leverage the higher energy densities of liquid fuels in order for them to be utilized in practical contexts. This necessitates a comprehensive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Michael Ullman , Ral Bielawski , Venkat Raman

Modeling the risk of extreme weather events in a changing climate is essential for developing effective adaptation and mitigation strategies. Although the available low-resolution climate models capture different scenarios, accurate risk…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Anamitra Saha , Sai Ravela

High speed microfluidic jets can be generated by a thermocavitation process: from the evaporation of the liquid inside a microfluidic channel, a rapidly expanding bubble is formed and generates a jet through a flow focusing effect. Here, we…

Compound drop impacting on a solid surface is of considerable importance in industrial applications, such as combustion, food industry, and drug encapsulation. An intriguing phenomenon associated with this process is the occurrence of…

This study employs molecular dynamics simulations to investigate droplet dynamics when a stationary droplet on a solid surface is struck by another droplet of similar size from above. The focus is on the jumping behavior of the merged…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ertiza Hossain Shopnil , Jahid Emon , Md Nadeem Azad , AKM Monjur Morshed

A liquid droplet is fragmented by a sudden pressurized-gas blow, and the resulting droplets, adhered to the window of a flatbed scanner, are counted and sized by computerized means. The use of a scanner plus image recognition software…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cristian F. Moukarzel , Silvia F. Fernandez-Sabido , J. C. Ruiz-Suarez

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of viscosity on the outcomes of collisions between a regular stream of droplets and a continuous liquid jet. A broad variation of liquid viscosity of both the drop and the jet liquid is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-11 David Baumgartner , Günter Brenn , Carole Planchette

Precipitation from tropical cyclones (TCs) can cause disasters such as flooding, mudslides, and landslides. Predicting such precipitation in advance is crucial, giving people time to prepare and defend against these precipitation-induced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Cheng Huang , Pan Mu , Cong Bai , Peter AG Watson

This work investigates variations in the star formation rate during galaxy collisions when the initial conditions of velocity and gas mass are altered. For this purpose, hydrodynamic simulations were performed using the GADGET-4 code, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Gustavo Neves Pereira , Paulo Laerte Natti

Changes in aerosol concentrations can modify cloud brightness, producing a strong but poorly constrained influence on Earth's energy balance. Because cloud reflectivity depends on the size distribution of cloud droplets, and aerosol size…

We investigate the problem of growing clusters, which is modeled by two dimensional disks and three dimensional droplets. In this model we place a number of seeds on random locations on a lattice with an initial occupation probability, $p$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-28 N. Tsakiris , M. Maragakis , K. Kosmidis , P. Argyrakis

The climate change dispute is about changes over time of environmental characteristics (such as rainfall). Some people say that a possible change is not so much in the mean but rather in the extreme phenomena (that is, the average rainfall…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Laurens de Haan , Albert Klein Tank , Cláudia Neves

Laplace pressure driven snap-off is a technique that is used to produce droplets for emulsions and microfluidics purposes. Previous predictions of droplet size have assumed a quasi-equilibrium low flow limit. We present a simple model to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-16 Solomon Barkley , Samantha J. Scarfe , Eric R. Weeks , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

The deformation and breakup of droplets in airflows is important in spray and atomisation processes, but the shear effect in non-uniform airflow is rarely reported. In this study, the deformation and breakup of droplets in a shear flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Zhikun Xu , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

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…

Binary droplet collisions are of importance in a variety of practical applications comprising dispersed two-phase flows. The background of our research is the prediction of properties of particulate products formed in spray processes. To…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-24 C. Focke , D. Bothe , M. Kuschel , M. Sommerfeld

We present a stochastic mean-reverting jump-diffusion model to simulate rainfall time series and validate it using long-term half-hourly rain fall data from the North-East region of India. The model captures the intermittent and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Joya GhoshDastider , D. Pal , Pankaj Kumar Mishra