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We numerically study the Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection in two-dimensional model emulsions confined between two parallel walls at fixed temperatures. The systems under study are heterogeneous, with finite-size droplets dispersed in a…

Liquid droplets sliding along solid surfaces are a frequently observed phenomenon in nature, e.g., raindrops on a leaf, and in everyday situations, e.g., drops of water in a drinking glass. To model this situation, we use a phase field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle , Jens-Uwe Repke

Let D be a bounded, smooth enough domain of R^2. For L>0 consider the continuous time, zero-temperature heat bath dynamics for the nearest-neighbor Ising model on (Z/L)^2 (the square lattice with lattice spacing 1/L) with initial condition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 H. Lacoin , F. Simenhaus , F. L. Toninelli

The idea of contact angle was generalized by using the principle of minimum total energy. The problems of the shape of the two-dimensional sessile drop and the drop on an inclined surface are considered. The differential equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. I. Frenkel

A lattice-gas model with heterogeneity is developed for the description of fluid condensation in finite sized one-dimensional pores of arbitrary shape. An exact solution of the model is presented for zero-temperature that reproduces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-09 Thomas P. Handford , Francisco J. Perez-Reche , Sergei N. Taraskin

We investigate a model for contact angle motion of quasi-static capillary drops resting on a horizontal plane. We prove global in time existence and long time behavior (convergence to equilibrium) in a class of star-shaped initial data for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 William M. Feldman , Inwon C. Kim

The evolution of suspension drops sedimenting under gravity in a viscous fluid close to a vertical wall was studied experimentally and numerically with the use of the point-force model, in the Stokes flow regime. The fluid inside and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anna Mylyk , Walter Meile , Gunter Brenn , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska

Local contact line pinning prevents droplets from rearranging to minimal global energy, and models for droplets without pinning cannot predict their shape. We show that experiments are much better described by a theory, developed herein,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-21 Michiel Musterd , Volkert van Steijn , Chris R. Kleijn , Michiel T. Kreutzer

Droplet deformations caused by substrate vibrations are ubiquitous in nature and highly relevant for applications such as microreactors and single-cell sorting. The vibrations can induce droplet oscillations, a fundamental process that…

Recent studies of cooled oil emulsion droplets uncovered transformations into a host of flattened shapes with straight edges and sharp corners, driven by a partial phase transition of the bulk liquid phase. Here, we explore theoretically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-01 Pierre A. Haas , Raymond E. Goldstein , Stoyan K. Smoukov , Diana Cholakova , Nikolai Denkov

In this contribution, we study situations in which nanoparticles in a fluid are strongly heated, generating high heat fluxes. This situation is relevant to experiments in which a fluid is locally heated using selective absorption of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-16 Samy Merabia , Serguei Shenogin , Laurent Joly , Pawel Keblinski , J. -L. Barrat

Escaping of the liquid molecules from their liquid bulk into the vapour phase at the vapour-liquid interface is controlled by the vapour diffusion process, which nevertheless hardly senses the macroscopic shape of this interface. Here,…

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We experimentally investigate the evaporation dynamics of an array of sessile droplets arranged in different configurations. Utilizing a customized goniometer, we capture side and top view profiles to monitor the evolution of height,…

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We have studied the appearance of vortex arrays in a rotating helium-4 nanodroplet at zero temperature within density functional theory. Our results are compared with those for classical rotating fluid drops used to analyze the shape and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Francesco Ancilotto , Marti Pi , Manuel Barranco

Droplet-fiber interactions, prevalent in nature and widely applied across various engineering fields, have garnered significant research interest. Many works have focused on the interactions between droplets and single or two fibers.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Yi Zhang , Zhao Pan

We study the wetting of a thin elastic filament floating on a fluid surface by a droplet of another, immiscible fluid. This quasi-2D experimental system is the lower-dimensional counterpart of the wetting and wrapping of a droplet by an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-11 S Ganga Prasath , Joel Marthelot , Narayanan Menon , Rama Govindarajan

We investigate the interactions between two drops in a heated environment and analyze the effect of evaporation on bouncing, coalescence and reflexive separation phenomena. A reliable mass transfer model is incorporated in a coupled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-11 Ashwani Kumar Pal , Kirti Chandra Sahu , Gautam Biswas

Drop evaporation is a simple phenomena but still unclear concerning the mechanisms of evaporation. A common agreement of the scientific community based on experimental and numerical work evidences that most of the evaporation occurs at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-18 D. Brutin , F. Rigollet , C. Le Niliot

We analyze quantum droplets formed in a two-dimensional symmetric mixture of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms. For sufficiently large atom numbers, these droplets exhibit a flat-top density profile with sharp boundaries governed by surface…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-30 Angel Paredes , Jose Guerra-Carmenate , Humberto Michinel

Liquid drops can be kept from touching a plane solid surface by a gas stream entering from underneath, as it is observed for water drops on a heated plate, kept aloft by a stream of water vapor. We investigate the limit of small flow rates,…

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