Deformation and breakup of bubbles and drops in turbulence

R Ni - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fragmentation of bubbles and droplets in turbulence produces a dispersed phase spanning
a broad range of scales, encompassing everything from droplets in nanoemulsions to …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

Role of viscosity in turbulent drop break-up

PK Farsoiya, Z Liu, A Daiss, RO Fox… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We investigate drop break-up morphology, occurrence, time and size distribution, through
large ensembles of high-fidelity direct-numerical simulations of drops in homogeneous …

Breakup prediction of oscillating droplets under turbulent flow

C Deberne, V Chéron, A Poux, JCB de Motta - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Droplet and bubble breakup phenomena under turbulent flow have been widely studied for
over 70 years through theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches. Despite …

Heat transfer in drop-laden turbulence

F Mangani, A Roccon, F Zonta… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Heat transfer by large deformable drops in a turbulent flow is a complex and rich-in-physics
system, in which drop deformation, breakage and coalescence influence the transport of …

Emulsifier adsorption kinetics influences drop deformation and breakup in turbulent emulsification

A Håkansson, L Nilsson - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Turbulent drop breakup is of large importance for applications such as food and
pharmaceutical processing, as well as of substantial fundamental scientific interest …

Morphology of clean and surfactant-laden droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

I Cannon, G Soligo, ME Rosti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We perform direct numerical simulations of surfactant-laden droplets in homogeneous
isotropic turbulence with Taylor Reynolds number is the droplet characteristic size. We …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of single drop breakup in a confined turbulent wall-jet–Effect of Weber number

A Håkansson, P Olad - Chemical Engineering Science, 2025 - Elsevier
This study uses an experimental scale-up model together with a high-speed camera setup to
quantitatively study the effect of Weber number on the breakup probability, deformation time …

[HTML][HTML] Drop breakup at reduced energy cost using a turbulent pulse–implications for improving efficiency in emulsification devices

A Håkansson - Chemical Engineering Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Emulsification devices break drops by rapidly pushing them through a region of intense
turbulence–a 'turbulent pulse'. These devices are widely used in chemical engineering …

Turbulent convection in emulsions: the Rayleigh–Bénard configuration

AM Bilondi, N Scapin, L Brandt… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
This study explores heat and turbulent modulation in three-dimensional multiphase
Rayleigh–Bénard convection using direct numerical simulations. Two immiscible fluids with …