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20192025
most citedFibrotaxis: gradient-free, spontaneous and controllable droplet motion on soft solids

9 citations · 12 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.flu-dyn2025

Droplet mobilization in actuated deformable tubes

Sthavishtha R. Bhopalam, Ruben Juanes, Hector Gomez

We study the mobilization of an oil droplet in a deformable, actuated constricted tube subjected to two different actuation mechanisms: hydrodynamic actuation (oscillatory body for…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 3 cited

Simulating fluid-fluid displacement in a soft capillary tube: How compliance delays interfacial instability and bubble pinch-off

Sthavishtha R. Bhopalam, Ruben Juanes, Hector Gomez

The displacement of a more viscous fluid by a less viscous immiscible fluid in confined geometries is a fundamental problem in multiphase flows. Recent experiments have shown that…

math.AP2024

Energy dissipation in elasto-capillary fluid-structure interaction systems involving three immiscible fluids

Sthavishtha R. Bhopalam, Hector Gomez

Here, we consider the elasto-capillary fluid-structure interaction problem studied in Bhopalam, Bueno & Gomez (2022), i.e., three immiscible fluids in contact with an elastic solid…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 9 cited

Fibrotaxis: gradient-free, spontaneous and controllable droplet motion on soft solids

Sthavishtha R. Bhopalam, Jesus Bueno, Hector Gomez

Most passive droplet transport strategies rely on spatial variations of material properties to drive droplet motion, leading to gradient-based mechanisms with intrinsic length scal…

physics.geo-ph2019

3D non-conforming mesh model for flow in fractured porous media using Lagrange multipliers

Philipp Schädle, Patrick Zulian, Daniel Vogler +5

This work presents a modeling approach for single-phase flow in 3D fractured porous media with non-conforming meshes. To this end, a Lagrange multiplier method is combined with a p…