Coalescence dynamics

J Eggers, JE Sprittles, JH Snoeijer - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The merging of two fluid drops is one of the fundamental topological transitions occurring in
free surface flow. Its description has many applications, for example, in the chemical industry …

Coalescence of bubbles and drops in an outer fluid

JD Paulsen, R Carmigniani, A Kannan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
When two liquid drops touch, a microscopic connecting liquid bridge forms and rapidly
grows as the two drops merge into one. Whereas coalescence has been thoroughly studied …

Sequential self-propelled morphology transitions of nanoscale condensates enable a cascade jum**-droplet condensation

S Gao, J Qu, Z Liu, W Ma - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Jum**-droplet condensation, namely the out-of-plane jum** of condensed droplets
upon coalescence, has been a promising technical innovation in the fields of energy …

Surfing of particles and droplets on the free surface of a liquid: a review

PN Panday, A Bandopadhyay, PK Das - The European Physical Journal …, 2023 - Springer
Active systems have been a matter of great interest across various scientific disciplines
owing to the host of potential applications. While bulk active matter systems have received a …

Droplet impact on deep liquid pools: Rayleigh jet to formation of secondary droplets

E Castillo-Orozco, A Davanlou, PK Choudhury… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The impact of droplets on a deep pool has applications in cleaning up oil spills, spray
cooling, painting, inkjet printing, and forensic analysis, relying on the changes in properties …

Universality in the viscous-to-inertial coalescence of liquid droplets

X **a, C He, P Zhang - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We present a theory on the coalescence of 2 spherical liquid droplets that are initially
stationary. The evolution of the radius of a liquid neck formed upon coalescence was …

Droplet coalescence by molecular dynamics and phase-field modeling

M Heinen, M Hoffmann, F Diewald, S Seckler… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Coalescence of argon droplets with a radius of 25, 50, and 100 nm is studied with
computational methods. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are carried out to generate …

Taylor–Culick retractions and the influence of the surroundings

V Sanjay, U Sen, P Kant, D Lohse - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
When a freely suspended liquid film ruptures, it retracts spontaneously under the action of
surface tension. If the film is surrounded by air, the retraction velocity is known to approach …

Capillary breakup of a liquid bridge: identifying regimes and transitions

Y Li, JE Sprittles - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Computations of the breakup of a liquid bridge are used to establish the limits of applicability
of similarity solutions derived for different breakup regimes. These regimes are based on …

Coalescence of biphasic droplets embedded in free standing smectic A films

C Klopp, T Trittel, K Harth, R Stannarius - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate micrometer-sized flat droplets consisting of an isotropic core surrounded by a
nematic rim in freely suspended smectic A liquid-crystal films. In contrast to purely isotropic …