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most citedSwimming with a cage: Low-Reynolds-number locomotion inside a droplet

37 citations · 55 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.flu-dyn2025

Effective flows across diffusio-phoretic membranes

Kevin Wittkowski, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Edoardo Carlo Giordano +2

Flows enabled by phoretic mechanisms are of significant interest in several biological and biomedical processes, such as bacterial motion and targeted drug delivery. Here, we devel…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Drops can Perpetually Bounce over a Vibrating Wettable Solid

Lebo Molefe, Tomas Fullana, François Gallaire +1

On the surface of a vibrating liquid bath, instead of coalescing, a drop will continually bounce on a thin film of air between the drop and the free surface, giving rise to rich ch…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Nonmodal amplitude equations

Yves-Marie Ducimetière, François Gallaire

We consider fluid flows for which the linearized Navier-Stokes operator is strongly non-normal. The responses of such flows to external perturbations are spanned by a generically v…

physics.flu-dyn2022

On the liquid film instability of an internally coated horizontal tube

Shahab Eghbali, Yves-Marie Ducimetiere, Edouard Boujo +1

We study numerically and theoretically the gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inner side of a horizontal cylindrical tube and surrounding a shear-free dynamic…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Prediction of Self-Assembled Dewetted Nanostructures for Photonics Applications via a Continuum Mechanics Framework

Louis Martin-Monier, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Pierre-Luc Piveteau +2

When a liquid film lies on a non-wettable substrate, the configuration is unstable and the film then retracts from a solid substrate to form droplets. This phenomenon, known as dew…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Too fast to grow: Dynamics of pendant drops sliding on a thin film

Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, François Gallaire +1

Pendant drops suspended on the underside of a wet substrate are known to accumulate fluid from the surrounding thin liquid film, a process that often results in dripping. The growt…