Challenges of numerical simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena: a review

S Afkhami - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetting is fundamental to many technological applications that involve the motion of the fluid–
fluid interface on a solid. While static wetting is well-understood in the context of …

Condensation heat transfer in microgravity conditions

A Berto, M Azzolin, S Bortolin, M Miscevic, P Lavieille… - npj …, 2023 - nature.com
In the present paper, a thorough review of the experimental and numerical studies dealing
with filmwise and dropwise condensation under microgravity is reported, covering …

Detailed numerical investigation of the drop aerobreakup in the bag breakup regime

Y Ling, T Mahmood - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Aerobreakup of drops is a fundamental two-phase flow problem that is essential to many
spray applications. A parametric numerical study was performed by varying the gas stream …

The fluid dynamics of a viscoelastic fluid drip** onto a substrate

K Zinelis, T Abadie, GH McKinley, OK Matar - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Extensional flows of complex fluids play an important role in many industrial applications,
such as spraying and atomisation, as well as microfluidic-based drop deposition. The …

Effects of gravity on natural oscillations of sessile drops

F Zhang, X Zhou, H Ding - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Natural oscillations of sessile drops with a free or pinned contact line in different gravity
environments are studied based on a linear inviscid irrotational theory. The inviscid Navier …

Data-driven modeling of the aerodynamic deformation and drag for a freely moving drop in the sub-critical Weber number regime

T Mahmood, MAK Tonmoy, C Sevart, Y Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of the dynamics and deformation of freely moving drops is crucial for
numerous droplet applications. When the Weber number is finite but below a critical value …

A consistent treatment of dynamic contact angles in the sharp-interface framework with the generalized Navier boundary condition

T Fullana, Y Kulkarni, M Fricke, S Popinet… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we revisit the Generalized Navier Boundary condition (GNBC) introduced by
Qian et al. in the sharp interface Volume-of-Fluid context. We replace the singular …

Oscillatory behavior of drops in an ambient liquid under an impact

B Liao, L Zhang, L Yao, Y Bu, S Chen - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, the oscillatory behavior of drops in an ambient liquid under an impact is
numerically and experimentally studied using the Basilisk C and a self-designed falling drop …

Convective transport characteristics of condensing droplets in moist air flow

ZY Wu, LT Yang, SF Zheng, SR Gao, YR Yang… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Condensation of convective moist air flow is a crucial physical process and is directly related
to various industries. It is essential to understand the underlying growth mechanism of …

Static and dynamic stability of pendant drops

F Zhang, X Zhou - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Despite the widespread occurrence of pendant drops in nature, there is still a lack of
combined studies on their dynamic and static stability. This study focuses on the dynamic …