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Viscous Taylor droplets in axisymmetric and planar tubes: from Bretherton's theory to empirical models
Gioele Balestra, Lailai Zhu, François Gallaire
The aim of this study is to derive accurate models for quantities characterizing the dynamics of droplets of non-vanishing viscosity in capillaries. In particular, we propose model…
Absolute/convective secondary instabilities and the role of confinement in free shear layers
Cristobal Arratia, Saviz Mowlavi, Francois Gallaire
Mixing layers can grow in time or space by vortex pairings that succeed each other in a nearly self-similar way. We use a point vortex model to study how confinement eventually lim…
Swimming with a cage: Low-Reynolds-number locomotion inside a droplet
Shang Yik Reigh, Lailai Zhu, François Gallaire +1
Inspired by recent experiments using synthetic microswimmers to manipulate droplets, we investigate the low-Reynolds-number locomotion of a model swimmer (a spherical squirmer) enc…