Study on the optimal parameter range of droplet-wrapped respirable dust in spray dustfall by mesoscopic method.

W Nie, F Liu, C Xu, H Peng, H Zhang… - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
Coal miners on the fringes of cities are often exposed to respirable dust hazards. Spray is
one of the most effective dust reduction measures. When studying the coupling and collision …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical investigation of non-Newtonian droplet collisions: Comparison of volume of fluid and the local front reconstruction method with experimental data

AH Huijgen, CG Llamas, PM Durubal, KA Buist… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Droplet-droplet collisions of non-Newtonian fluids are often encountered in industrial
applications such as spray drying, fluid catalytic cracking, coating and granulation. However …

Numerical investigation on the bubble rising dynamics in ratchet channels filled with viscoelastic liquids

Y Li, W Yuan, Q Ba, M Mei, W Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we investigated the dynamics of a bubble rising inside ratchet channels filled
with viscoelastic liquids by means of volume-of-fluid-based direct numerical simulations. The …

[HTML][HTML] Single-bubble rising in shear-thinning and elastoviscoplastic fluids using a geometric volume of fluid algorithm

A Fakhari, C Fernandes - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
The motion of air bubbles within a liquid plays a crucial role in various aspects including
heat transfer and material quality. In the context of non-Newtonian fluids, such as …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of a temperature-dependent viscosity on cooling droplet-droplet collisions

PM Durubal, A Tavanaei, KA Buist, JAM Kuipers… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
A detailed understanding of the collision dynamics of liquid droplets is relevant to natural
phenomena and industrial applications. These droplets could experience temperature …

Binary collision dynamics of immiscible Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid droplets

L Qian, X Liu, C Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This experimental and theoretical study is devoted to the investigation of head-on collisions
of two immiscible Newtonian and non-Newtonian droplets. The density of the two droplets is …

Numerical simulations of Phan-Thien-Tanner viscoelastic fluid flows based on the SPH method

X Xu, J Cheng, S Peng, P Yu - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluid flows are always a hot issue in the field of
computational fluid dynamics and the study of their complex rheological properties has …

Convection velocities in droplets before and after their collisions

R Volkov, P Tkachenko, E Podgornaya, P Strizhak - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
High-speed video recording was used together with particle image velocimetry with tracer
particles of titanium dioxide to study the characteristics of shifting and mixing of liquid layers …

Impact dynamics of compound droplets on low-temperature copper plates

JJ Tian, XM Han, S Mehendale, HY Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
Dimethyl silicone oil–water compound droplets were generated using the injection
technique and freely dropped on low-temperature (T w=-13° C) copper plates. The effects of …

Characterizing binary droplet collisions of power‐law fluids

AH Huijgen, PM Durubal, CG Llamas, KA Buist… - AIChE …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the dynamics of two equal‐sized droplets of non‐Newtonian liquids
with simulations using the volume of fluid method and the local front reconstruction method …