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20182026
most citedEffect of substrate topography, material wettability and dielectric thickness on reversible electrowetting

15 citations · 34 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Translation dynamics of evaporating sessile binary-mixture droplet populations

Debarshi Debnath, Anna Malachtari, George Karapetsas +5

The translation dynamics of two binary mixture droplets is investigated theoretically and is corroborated with experiments. The proposed model accounts for the effects of Marangoni…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Asymmetric freezing of a sliding droplet on an inclined surface

Sivanandan Kavuri, George Karapetsas, Chander Shekhar Sharma +1

We investigate the asymmetric freezing of a liquid droplet sliding on an inclined cold surface using numerical simulations based on the lubrication approximation. The combined effe…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Evaporation of sessile drops on a heated superhydrophobic substrate

Sivanandan Kavuri, Chander Shekhar Sharma, George Karapetsas +1

We experimentally investigate the evaporation dynamics of sessile water droplets on a micro-nano textured superhydrophobic aluminum substrate at various temperatures using shadowgr…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 5 cited

Evaporation-driven coalescence of two droplets undergoing freezing

Sivanandan Kavuri, George Karapetsas, Chander Shekhar Sharma +1

We examine the evaporation-induced coalescence of two droplets undergoing freezing by conducting numerical simulations employing the lubrication approximation. When two sessile dro…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Flow Structure near Three Phase Contact Line of Low-Contact-Angle Evaporating Droplets

Zhenying Wang, George Karapetsas, Prashant Valluri +1

Flow structure near three phase contact line (TPCL) of evaporating liquids plays a significant role in liquid wetting and dewetting, liquid film evaporation and boiling, etc. Despi…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Freezing of sessile droplet and frost halo formation

Sivanandan Kavuri, George Karapetsas, Chander Shekhar Sharma +1

The freezing of a sessile droplet unveils fascinating physics, characterised by the emergence of a frost halo on the underlying substrate, the progression of the liquid-ice interfa…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 2 cited

Intricate Role of Thermal Properties and Volatility in Droplet Spreading: A Generalization to Tanner's Law

Zhenying Wang, George Karapetsas, Prashant Valluri +1

Droplet spreading is ubiquitous and plays a significant role in liquid-based energy systems, thermal management devices, and microfluidics. While the spreading of non-volatile drop…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Dynamics of the interaction of multiple evaporating droplets on compliant substrates

Anna Malachtari, George Karapetsas

The dynamics of the interaction of a system of two thin volatile liquid droplets resting on a soft viscoelastic solid substrate are investigated theoretically. The developed model…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 12 cited

Physics-agnostic and Physics-infused machine learning for thin films flows: modeling, and predictions from small data

Cristina P. Martin-Linares, Yorgos M. Psarellis, Georgios Karapetsas +2

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows are crucial in numerous engineering applications, but are often limited by the computationally demanding solution of the Navier-Stokes (NS…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Open-source finite volume solvers for multiphase (n-phase) flows involving either Newtonian or non-Newtonian complex fluids

Chris Dritselis, George Karapetsas

Two new control volume solvers multiFluidInterFoam and rheoMultiFluidInterFoam are presented for the simulation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian n-phase flows, respectively, fully ac…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Spreading and retraction dynamics of sessileevaporating droplets comprising volatile binary mixtures

A. G. L. Williams. G. Karapetsas, D. Mamalis, K. Sefiane +2

The dynamics of thin volatile droplets comprising of binary mixtures deposited on a heated substrate are investigated. Using lubrication theory, we develop a novel one-sided model…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 15 cited

Effect of substrate topography, material wettability and dielectric thickness on reversible electrowetting

Nikolaos T. Chamakos, George Karapetsas, Athanasios G. Papathanasiou

Recent experiments by Kavousanakis et al., Langmuir, 2018 [1], showed that reversible electrowetting on superhydrophobic surfaces can be achieved by using a thick solid dielectric…