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20172025
most citedTraces of surfactants can severely limit the drag reduction of superhydrophobic surfaces

103 citations · 313 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Long-term microgravity experiments reveal a new mechanism for particle aggregation in suspension

Fabian Kleischmann, Bernhard Vowinckel, Eckart Meiburg +1

Microgravity experiments on board the International Space Station, combined with particle-resolved direct numerical simulations, were conducted to investigate the long-term floccul…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

Drag reduction in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels at high Péclet numbers

Samuel D. Tomlinson, Frédéric Gibou, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz +3

Motivated by microfluidic applications, we investigate drag reduction in laminar pressure-driven flows in channels with streamwise-periodic superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) contami…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Pairwise interaction of spherical particles aligned in oscillatory flow

Fabian Kleischmann, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, Eckart Meiburg +1

We present a systematic simulation campaign to investigate the pairwise interaction of two mobile, monodisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid and subjected to monochromati…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Exogenous-endogenous surfactant interaction yields heterogeneous spreading in complex branching networks

Richard Mcnair, Fernando Temprano-Coleto, François J. Peaudecerf +4

Experiments have shown that surfactant introduced to a liquid-filled maze can find the solution path. We reveal how the maze-solving dynamics arise from interactions between the ad…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 5 cited

Unsteady evolution of slip and drag in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels

Samuel D. Tomlinson, Frédéric Gibou, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz +3

Recognising that surfactants can impede the drag reduction resulting from superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs), we investigate the impact of spatio-temporal fluctuations in surfactant…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Real-time Manipulation of Liquid Droplets using Photo-responsive Surfactant

Xichen Liang, Kseniia M. Karnaukh, Lei Zhao +12

Fast and programmable transport of liquid droplets on a solid substrate is desirable in microfluidic, thermal, biomedical, and energy devices. Past research has focused on designin…

physics.flu-dyn2023

A model for slip and drag in turbulent flows over superhydrophobic surfaces with surfactant

Samuel D. Tomlinson, François Peaudecerf, Fernando Temprano-Coleto +4

Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) can reduce the friction drag in turbulent flows. In the laminar regime, it has been shown that trace amounts of surfactant can negate this drag red…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 12 cited

Laminar drag reduction in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels

Samuel D. Tomlinson, Frédéric Gibou, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz +3

While superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) show promise for drag reduction applications, their performance can be compromised by traces of surfactant, which generate Marangoni stresses…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Simultaneous PIV and LIF measurements in stratified flows using pulsed lasers

Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz

We examine the problem of performing simultaneous and coplanar Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) measurements in a stratified fluid initially at…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 9 cited

A simple criterion and experiments for onset of flocculation in kaolin clay suspensions

Nicholas Rommelfanger, Bernhard Vowinckel, Zixuan Wang +3

Cohesive effects between fine-grained sediment particles greatly influence their effective settling rate and erodibility. Many studies have observed a qualitative difference in set…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 25 cited

A single parameter can predict surfactant impairment of superhydrophobic drag reduction

Fernando Temprano-Coleto, Scott M. Smith, François J. Peaudecerf +3

Recent experimental and computational investigations have shown that trace amounts of surfactants, unavoidable in practice, can critically impair the drag reduction of superhydroph…

physics.flu-dyn2020

An entrainment-based model for annular wakes, with applications to airborne wind energy

Sam Kaufman-Martin, Nicholas Naclerio, Pedro May +1

Several novel wind energy systems produce wakes with annular cross-sections, which are qualitatively different from the wakes with circular cross-sections commonly generated by con…

cond-mat.soft2019

Consolidation of freshly deposited cohesive and non-cohesive sediment: particle-resolved simulations

Bernhard Vowinckel, Edward Biegert, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz +1

We analyze the consolidation of freshly deposited cohesive and non-cohesive sediment by means of particle-resolved direct Navier-Stokes simulations based on the Immersed Boundary M…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 43 cited

A theory for the slip and drag of superhydrophobic surfaces with surfactant

Julien R. Landel, François J. Peaudecerf, Fernando Temprano-Coleto +3

Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) have the potential to reduce drag at solid boundaries. However, multiple independent studies have recently shown that small amounts of surfactant,…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 84 cited

Settling of cohesive sediment: particle-resolved simulations

B. Vowinckel, J. Withers, P. Luzzatto-Fegiz +1

We develop a physical and computational model for performing fully coupled, particle-resolved Direct Numerical Simulations of cohesive sediment, based on the Immersed Boundary Meth…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 30 cited

An entrainment model for fully-developed wind farms: effects of atmospheric stability and an ideal limit for wind farm performance

Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, Colm-cille P. Caulfield

While a theoretical limit has long been established for the performance of a single turbine, no corresponding upper bound exists for the power output from a large wind farm, making…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 103 cited

Traces of surfactants can severely limit the drag reduction of superhydrophobic surfaces

François J. Peaudecerf, Julien R. Landel, Raymond E. Goldstein +1

Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) have the potential to achieve large drag reduction for internal and external flow applications. However, experiments have shown inconsistent result…