Levitation and self-organization of droplets

VS Ajaev, OA Kabov - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review studies of levitating droplets over liquid–gas interfaces and dry solid surfaces
with a focus on the physical mechanisms of levitation under different conditions. A …

Levitation conditions for condensing droplets over heated liquid surfaces

DV Zaitsev, DP Kirichenko, OA Kabov, VS Ajaev - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We report experimental studies and develop mathematical models of levitation of microscale
droplets over an evaporating liquid layer. The maximum size of droplets is estimated from …

Evaporation of water droplets in a high-temperature gaseous medium

OV Vysokomornaya, GV Kuznetsov… - Journal of Engineering …, 2016 - Springer
A numerical solution of the problem of heat and mass transfer in evaporation of a droplet of
water moving in a stream of high-temperature (up to 1200 K) gases is done on the basis of a …

Investigation of moist air flow near contact line using microdroplets as tracers

OA Kabov, DV Zaitsev, DP Kirichenko… - … Phenomena and Heat …, 2016 - dl.begellhouse.com
We study the trajectories of levitating microscale droplets of water in the vicinity of a contact
line which is the boundary of a dry patch in a liquid layer on a heated horizontal substrate …

Determination of surface tension and contact angle by the axisymmetric bubble and droplet shape analysis

IV Marchuk, VV Cheverda, PA Strizhak… - Thermophysics and …, 2015 - Springer
The algorithms of solution to the Young–Laplace equation, describing the shape of an
axisymmetric droplet on a flat horizontal surface, with various ways of setting the initial data …

Испарение и трансформация капель и больших массивов жидкости при движении через высокотемпературные газы

ОВ Высокоморная, ГВ Кузнецов, ПА Стрижак - 2016 - elibrary.ru
В монографии излагаются основные результаты теоретических и экспериментальных
исследований процессов испарения и трансформации капель и больших массивов …

Differences of two-component droplets breakup at the high temperatures

DV Antonov, GV Kuznetsov, PA Strizhak - Journal of the Energy Institute, 2020 - Elsevier
Heated liquid droplets may break up in the puffing and micro-explosion regimes. Many gas-
vapor-droplet technologies can be improved significantly by using partial or full dispersion …

Predictive determination of the integral characteristics of evaporation of water droplets in gas media with a varying temperature

OV Vysokomornaya, GV Kuznetsov… - Journal of Engineering …, 2017 - Springer
The possibility of using three heat-transfer models based on ordinary differential equations
(ODEs) has been analyzed with account taken of the relevant endothermic phase …

On the role of capillary waves in the mechanism of coalescence of a droplet cluster

AA Fedorets, IV Marchuk, OA Kabov - JETP Letters, 2014 - Springer
Packets of capillary waves on the surface of a horizontal water layer generated at
coalescence with a layer of microdroplets (with a characteristic diameter of 50–100 μm) of …

The use of infrared self-emission measurements to retrieve surface temperature of levitating water droplets

AA Fedorets, LA Dombrovsky, AM Smirnov - Infrared Physics & Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
Levitating small water droplets formed from the upward flow of steam and entrained air
above the heated water surface are studied. The case of relatively large droplets in the …