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The formation of small droplets and bubbles in turbulent flows is a crucial process in geophysics and engineering, whose underlying physical mechanism remains a puzzle. In this letter, we address this problem by means of high-resolution…

Chemical reactions in small droplets are extensively explored to accelerate the discovery of new materials, increase efficiency and specificity in catalytic biphasic conversion and in high throughput analytics. In this work, we investigate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Zhengxin Li , Hongbo Zeng , Xuehua Zhang

The passage of single air bubbles through the horizontal interface between miscible viscoplastic and Newtonian fluids, considering various combinations of densities and viscosities for the fluid layers, is studied computationally. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-30 Marjan Zare , Ian Frigaard , Gregory Lawrence

A liquid jet may develop different types of instabilities, like the so-called Rayleigh-Plateau instability, which breaks the jet into droplets. However, another type of instabilities may appear when we electrify a liquid jet and induce some…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-02 Alvaro G. Marin , Guillaume Riboux , Ignacio G. Loscertales , Antonio Barrero

How liquid transport occurs in confined spaces is relevant to many industrial and lab-scale processes, ranging from enhanced oil recovery to drug delivery systems. In this work, we investigate propelling microdroplets that form from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-15 Gilmar F. Arends , John M. Shaw , Xuehua Zhang

A stochastic model for the dynamics of enzymatic catalysis in explicit, effective solvents under physiological conditions is presented. Analytically-computed first passage time densities of a diffusing particle in a spherical shell with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-04 Jeremy Schofield , Paul Inder , Raymond Kapral

Liquid-liquid phase separation is key to understanding aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) arising throughout cell biology, medical science, and the pharmaceutical industry. Controlling the detailed morphology of phase-separating compound…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 Eric W. Hester , Sean P. Carney , Vishwesh Shah , Alyssa Arnheim , Bena Patel , Dino Di Carlo , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Metals are the most common materials used in space technology. Metal structures, while used in space, are subjected to the full spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation together with particle irradiation. Hence, they undergo degradation.…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Maciej Sznajder , Ulrich Geppert

The present article reports the hitherto unreported phenomenon of arrested evaporation dynamics in pendent droplets in an electric field ambience. The evaporation kinetics of pendant droplets of electrically conducting saline solutions in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-10 Vivek Jaiswal , Shubham Singh , A R Harikrishnan , Purbarun Dhar

We study a $2d$ Hamiltonian fluid made of particles carrying spins coupled to their velocities. At low temperatures and intermediate densities, this conservative system exhibits phase coexistence between a collectively moving droplet and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-14 Mathias Casiulis , Marco Tarzia , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Olivier Dauchot

This study investigates the shock-induced atomisation dynamics of an acoustically levitated TM-10 nanofluid droplet subjected to a coaxially propagating blast wave and subsequent compressible vortex ring, generated using a compact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-21 Gautham Vadlamudi , Bal Krishan , Akarsh Choudhary , Saptarshi Basu

The present study deals with the dynamics of a double emulsion confined in a microchannel under the presence of a uniform electric field. Towards investigating the non-trivial electrohydrodynamics of a compound droplet, confined in between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-14 Somnath Santra , Sayan Das , Suman Chakraborty

This study investigates the radial centering of gas bubbles within a buoyant plume of ethanol injected into a co-flowing water sheath flow in a vertical capillary. Bubbles nucleate in the ethanol stream due to CO$_2$ supersaturation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Tobias Baier , Steffen Bisswanger , Sebastian Dehe , Steffen Hardt

Hypothesis: Some ions can prevent bubbles from coalescing in water. The Gibbs-Marangoni pressure has been proposed as an explanation of this phenomenon. This repulsive pressure occurs during thin film drainage whenever surface enhanced or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-13 Timothy T. Duignan

We experiment with injecting a continuous stream of gas into a shallow liquid, similar to how one might blow into a straw placed at the bottom of a near-empty drink. By varying the angle of the straw (here a metal needle), we observe a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 James C. Bird , Howard A. Stone

Bubble nucleation at catalyst surfaces plays a critical role in the operation of electrolyzers. However, achieving controlled bubble nucleation remains challenging due to limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Here, we present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-13 Qingguang Xie , Paolo Malgaretti , Othmane Aouane , Simon Thiele , Jens Harting

In this study we have studied the initial stage of the nanosecond-pulsed discharge development in liquid phase. Modeling predicts that in the case of fast rising strong nonhomogeneous electric fields in the vicinity of high voltage pin…

We show that during evaporation of a pore network, liquid can refill the gas occupied pores, snapping off a gas bubble, which then moves to a stable configuration. This phenomenon is induced by the capillary instability due to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Tao Zhang , Rui Wu , C. Y. Zhao , Evangelos Tsotsas , Abdolreza Kharaghani

Understanding O2 bubble nucleation and growth during the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial to comprehend their influences on catalytically active sites in the process. To achieve this goal, mapping the spatial variation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Nataraju Bodappa , Gregory Jerkiewicz , Peter Grutter

The dynamical perspectives of bubble in a liquid droplet on smooth solid substrate can be revealed by investigating interfacial self-assembly phenomena. Moreover, the complexity in such system can be scaled down into a transparent immobile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-19 Mayuri Bora , Sushant K. Behera , Pritam Deb