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20162026
most citedComputational modeling of multiphase viscoelastic and elastoviscoplastic flows

72 citations · 317 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Solid adsorption: the missing mechanism for surfactant contact lines -- a phase-field approach

Parvathy K. Kannan, Kazi T. Iqbal, Diego Díaz +5

We develop a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for soluble surfactants in two-phase flows, incorporating both interfacial and solid surface adsorption. The model is de…

cond-mat.soft2026

Polyelectrolyte adsorption at the solid-liquid interface favors receding contact line instability

Léa Delance, Diego Díaz, Arivazhagan G. Balasubramanian +3

Controlling the motion of non-Newtonian drops on surfaces is crucial for applications ranging from inkjet printing to biomedical devices and food processing. While the macroscopic…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Cahn-Hilliard Phase Field modelling captures nanoscale contact line dynamics on high-friction surfaces

Michele Pellegrino, Parvathy K. Kannan, Gustav Amberg +3

Incorporating molecular-scale effects in the description of contact line motion is essential for accurately capturing all sources of energy dissipation in wetting dynamics. This ho…

physics.flu-dyn2026★ 1 cited

Sub-Yield Dynamics in Yield-Stress Materials

Alice Woodbridge, Kasra Amini, Fredrik Lundell +4

The mechanical response of yield-stress materials below the yield point remains a subject of debate. Two of the most widely used constitutive models for these materials offer funda…

physics.flu-dyn2025

The coherent structures of EVP Fluid Flow Past a Circular Cylinder

Adrián Corrochano, Kazi Tassawar Iqbal, Saeed Parvar +2

This study investigates the impact of elasticity and plasticity on two-dimensional flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds number . Ten direct numerical simulations wer…

eess.IV2025

Potential and challenges of generative adversarial networks for super-resolution in 4D Flow MRI

Oliver Welin Odeback, Arivazhagan Geetha Balasubramanian, Jonas Schollenberger +9

4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4D Flow MRI) enables non-invasive quantification of blood flow and hemodynamic parameters. However, its clinical application is limited by low s…

cond-mat.soft2025

Viscoelasticity of biomimetic scale beams from trapped complex fluids

Pranta Rahman Sarkar, Outi Tammisola, Ranajay Ghosh

We investigate the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of a biomimetic scale-covered beam in which shear-dependent complex fluids are trapped between overlapping scales under bending l…

cond-mat.soft2025

Balloon regime: Drop elasticity leads to complete rebound

D. Díaz, A. G. Balasubramanian, K. Amini +4

When a viscoelastic shear-thinning drop of high elasticity hits a superhydrophobic surface, a growing tail-like filament vertically emerges from the impact spot as the contact line…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Optical Coherence Tomography in Soft Matter

Kasra Amini, Cornelius Wittig, Sofia Saoncella +3

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become an indispensable tool for investigating mesoscopic features in soft matter and fluid mechanics. Its ability to provide high-resolution…

cond-mat.soft2024

Dense Suspensions in Rotary Shear

Naveen Kumar Agrawal, Zhouyang Ge, Martin Trulsson +2

We introduce a novel unsteady shear protocol, which we name Rotary Shear (RS), where the flow and vorticity directions are continuously rotated around the velocity gradient directi…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 12 cited

Bursting bubble in an elasto-viscoplastic medium

A. G. Balasubramanian, V. Sanjay, M. Jalaal +2

A gas bubble sitting at a liquid-gas interface can burst following the rupture of the thin liquid film separating it from the ambient, owing to the large surface energy of the resu…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 2 cited

Prediction of flow and elastic stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks

Arivazhagan G. Balasubramanian, Ricardo Vinuesa, Outi Tammisola

Neural-network models have been employed to predict the instantaneous flow close to the wall in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow. Numerical simulation data at the wall is util…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 3 cited

The effect of contact angle hysteresis on a droplet in a viscoelastic two-phase system

Kazem Bazesefidpar, Outi Tammisola

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 viscoe…

physics.flu-dyn2023

General hydrodynamic features of elastoviscoplastic fluid flows through randomised porous media

Saeed Parvar, Emad Chaparian, Outi Tammisola

A numerical study of yield-stress fluids flowing in porous media is presented. The porous media is randomly constructed by non-overlapping mono-dispersed circular obstacles. Two cl…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Elastoviscoplastic fluid flow past a circular cylinder

S. Parvar, K. T. Iqbal, M. N. Ardekani +2

The combined effect of fluid elasticity and yield-stress on the flow past a circular cylinder is studied by two-dimensional direct numerical simulation. We analyze the effects of y…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 3 cited

Experimental Investigation on Particle-Laden Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids in Micro-Channels Using Optical Coherence Tomography

Kasra Amini, Gustaf Martensson, Outi Tammisola +1

Considering the nonlinear response of non-Newtonian fluids to the local shear exerted on the bulks of fluid, the initially quasi-uniform distribution of the particles might be subj…

physics.flu-dyn2022

The role of wetting on the flow of two immiscible fluids in porous media

Armin Shahmardi, Salar Zamani Salimi, Outi Tammisola +2

We study the role of the capillary number, and of the surface wettability on the dynamics of the interface between an invading and a defending phase in a porous medium by mean…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Rapid wetting of shear-thinning fluids

Susumu Yada, Kazem Bazesefidpar, Outi Tammisola +2

Using experiments and numerical simulations, we investigate the spontaneous spreading of droplets of aqueous glycerol (Newtonian) and aqueous polymer (shear-thinning) solutions on…

cond-mat.soft2022

Experimental and numerical investigation of bubble migration in shear flow: deformability-driven chaining and repulsion

Blandine Feneuil, Kazi Tassawar Iqbal, Atle Jensen +3

We study the interaction-induced migration of bubbles in shear flow and observe that bubbles suspended in elastoviscoplastic emulsions organise into chains aligned in the flow dire…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 5 cited

Numerical simulation of the coalescence-induced polymeric droplet jumping on superhydrophobic surfaces

Kazem Bazesefidpar, Luca Brandt, Outi Tammisola

Self-propelled jumping of two polymeric droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces is investigated by three-dimensional direct numerical simulations. Two identical droplets of a viscoel…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 13 cited

A dual resolution phase-field solver for wetting of viscoelastic droplets

Kazem Bazesefidpar, Luca Brandt, Outi Tammisola

We present a new and efficient phase-field solver for viscoelastic fluids with moving contact line based on a dual-resolution strategy. The interface between two immiscible fluids…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 28 cited

Dynamics of an elastoviscoplastic droplet in a Newtonian medium under shear flow

Daulet Izbassarov, Outi Tammisola

The dynamics of a single elastoviscoplastic (EVP) drop immersed in plane shear flow of a Newtonian fluid is studied by 3D direct numerical simulations using a finite-difference and…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 5 cited

Polymer drag reduction in surfactant-contaminated turbulent bubbly channel flows

Daulet Izbassarov, Zaheer Ahmed, Pedro Costa +3

Polymer additives are commonly utilized to manipulate bubbly flows in various applications. Here, we investigate the effects of clean and contaminated bubbles driven upwards (upflo…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 20 cited

Turbulent bubbly channel flows: Effects of soluble surfactant and viscoelasticity

Zaheer Ahmed, Daulet Izbassarov, Pedro Costa +2

Interface-resolved direct numerical simulations are performed to examine the combined effects of soluble surfactant and viscoelasticity on the structure of a bubbly turbulent chann…