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We develop a mesoscale computational model to describe the interaction of a droplet with a solid. The model is based on the hybrid combination of the immersed boundary and the lattice Boltzmann computational schemes: the former is used to…

This study has numerically investigated the effect of surface wettability on two-phase immiscible flow and dynamics of droplet pinch-off in a T-junction microchannel using finite element method. A conservative level set method (CLSM) has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-01 Akepogu Venkateshwarlu , Ram Prakash Bharti

We simulate the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids separated by an interface in a homogeneous turbulent shear flow at a shear Reynolds number equal to 15200. The viscosity and density of the two fluids are equal, and various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-15 Marco E. Rosti , Zhouyang Ge , Suhas S. Jain , Michael S. Dodd , Luca Brandt

We investigate the dynamic behaviour of a two-dimensional (2D) droplet adhering to a wall in Poiseuille flow at low Reynolds numbers, in a system where either the droplet is viscoelastic (V/N) or the surrounding medium (N/V). The results…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kazem Bazesefidpar , Outi Tammisola

The effects of line tension on the morphology of a lens-shaped droplet and bubble placed on the inner wall of a spherical cavity are studied. The contact angle between the lens-shaped droplet and the concave spherical substrate is expressed…

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The paper studies a finite element method for computing transport and diffusion along evolving surfaces. The method does not require a parametrization of a surface or an extension of a PDE from a surface into a bulk outer domain. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Joerg Grande , Maxim Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We consider the dynamics of thin two-dimensional viscous droplets on chemically heterogeneous surfaces moving under the combined effects of slip, mass transfer and capillarity. The resulting long-wave evolution equation for the droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-20 Danny Groves , Nikos Savva

We consider a liquid drop sitting on a rough solid surface at equilibrium, a volume constrained minimizer of the total interfacial energy. The large-scale shape of such a drop strongly depends on the micro-structure of the solid surface.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-22 William M. Feldman , Inwon C. Kim

Soft substrates are deformed by liquid-vapor surface tension upon contact with liquid droplets, forming the well-known wetting ridge. This ridge dynamically propagates with the moving contact line and critically influences liquid spreading.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Menghua Zhao , Julien Dervaux , Tetsuharu Narita , François Lequeux , Laurent Limat , Matthieu Roché

Various substances in the liquid state tend to form droplets. In this paper the shape of such droplets is investigated within the spherical model of a lattice gas. We show that in this case the droplet boundary is always diffusive, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anatoly E. Patrick

Electrowetting on textured and lubricant infused surfaces is conventionally expected to promote enhanced droplet spreading by reducing apparent contact angles. Contrary to this intuition, we report rapid tangential droplet ejection at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Deepak J. , Suman Chakraborty , Shubham S. Ganar , Arindam Das

In their Comment [arXiv:2102.03842], Haas et al. advance two hypotheses on the nature of the shape transformations observed in surfactant-stabilized emulsion droplets, as the theoretical models that us [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038001 (2021)]…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Ireth García-Aguilar , Ayelet Atkins , Piermarco Fonda , Eli Sloutskin , Luca Giomi

We examine the shape of droplets atop deformable thin elastomeric films prepared with an anisotropic tension. As the droplets generate a deformation in the taut film through capillary forces, they assume a shape that is elongated along the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-17 Rafael D. Schulman , René Ledesma-Alonso , Thomas Salez , Elie Raphaël , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Dense suspensions of soft colloidal particles display a broad range of physical and rheological properties which are still far from being fully understood. To elucidate the role of deformability on colloidal flow, we employ computer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-31 M. Foglino , A. N. Morozov , D. Marenduzzo

We report that both shear and bulk moduli, not only shear modulus, are critical parameters involved in both homogeneous and inhomogeneous flows in metallic glass. The flow activation energy (\Delta F) of various glasses when scaled with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Q. Wang , W. H. Wang , H. Y. Bai

Shear transformations (i.e., localised rearrangements of particles resulting in the shear deformation of a small region of the sample) are the building blocks of mesoscale models for the flow of disordered solids. In order to compute the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexandre Nicolas , Francesco Puosi , Hideyuki Mizuno , Jean-Louis Barrat

A novel volume of fluid model (VoF) called explicit volume diffusion (EVD) is developed for the simulation of interfacial flows, including those with turbulence and primary spray atomisation. The EVD model is derived by volume averaging the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 B. Wang , M. J. Cleary , A. R. Masri

Ternary interactions between hetero-fluid particles, particularly the dynamics of droplets spreading over curved fluid interfaces remain insufficiently understood compared to the two-phase coalescence. In this study, we combine lattice…

The transport and deformation of confined droplets and flexible capsules are central to diverse phenomena and applications, from biological flows in microcapillaries to industrial processes in porous media. Inspired by experiments, we…

Understanding the dynamics of drops on polymer-coated surfaces is crucial for optimizing applications such as self-cleaning materials or microfluidic devices. While the static and dynamic properties of deposited drops have been well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-15 Rodrique G. M. Badr , Lukas Hauer , Doris Vollmer , Friederike Schmid