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Coalescence of immiscible droplets in liquid environments
Huadan Xu, Tianyou Wang, Zhizhao Che
Hypothesis: Droplet coalescence process is important in many applications and has been studied extensively when two droplets are surrounded by gas. However, the coalescence dynamic…
Deformation and breakup of compound droplets in airflow
Zhikun Xu, Yue Zhang, Tianyou Wang +1
Hypothesis: Immiscible liquids are commonly used to achieve unique functions in many applications, where the breakup of compound droplets in airflow is an important process. Due to…
Bridge evolution during the coalescence of immiscible droplets
Huadan Xu, Tianyou Wang, Zhizhao Che
Hypothesis: Droplet coalescence is a common phenomenon and plays an important role in many applications. When two liquid droplets are brought into contact, a liquid bridge forms an…
Droplet control based on pinning and substrate wettability
Panagiotis E. Theodorakis, Alidad Amirfazli, Bin Hu +1
Pinning of liquid droplets on solid substrates is ubiquitous and plays an essential role in many applications, especially in various areas, such as microfluidics and biology. Altho…
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coalescence of surfactant-laden droplets
Soheil Arbabi, Piotr Deuar, Mateusz Denys +3
We investigate the coalescence of surfactant-laden water droplets by using several different surfactant types and a wide range of concentrations by means of a coarse-grained model…
Breakup of particle-laden droplets in airflow
Zhikun Xu, Tianyou Wang, Zhizhao Che
The atomisation of suspension containing liquid and dispersed particles is prevalent in many applications. Previous studies of droplet breakup mainly focused on homogeneous fluids,…
Melting process of frozen sessile droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces
Jiawang Cui, Tianyou Wang, Zhizhao Che
Superhydrophobic surfaces can exhibit icephobicity in many ways due to their large contact angles and small rolling angles. The melting process of frozen droplets on superhydrophob…
Coalescence of immiscible sessile droplets on a partial wetting surface
Huadan Xu, Xinjin Ge, Tianyou Wang +1
Droplet coalescence is a common phenomenon and plays an important role in multi-disciplinary applications. Previous studies mainly consider the coalescence of miscible liquid, even…
Liquid Thread Breakup and the Formation of Satellite Droplets
Luís H. Carnevale, Piotr Deuar, Zhizhao Che +1
The breakup of liquid threads into smaller droplets is a fundamental problem in fluid dynamics. In this study, we estimate the characteristic wavelength of the breakup process by m…
Variation of Critical Crystallization Pressure for the Formation of Square Ice in Graphene Nanocapillaries
Zhen Zeng, Kai Sun, Rui Chen +3
Two-dimensional square ice in graphene nanocapillaries at room temperature is a fascinating phenomenon and has been confirmed experimentally. Instead of temperature for bulk ice, t…
Coalescence of surfactant-laden droplets
Soheil Arbabi, Piotr Deuar, Mateusz Denys +3
Droplet coalescence is an important process in nature and various technologies (e.g. inkjet printing). Here, we unveil the surfactant mass-transport mechanism and report on several…
Droplet breakup in airflow with strong shear effect
Zhikun Xu, Tianyou Wang, Zhizhao Che
The deformation and breakup of droplets in airflows is important in spray and atomisation processes, but the shear effect in non-uniform airflow is rarely reported. In this study,…