An intensive training course has been developed and implemented at the California State
University Long Beach based on 8 years of experience in the multiphase flow area with the …

Various mathematical approaches undertaken to model all stages of droplet freezing are
reviewed. The literature is rife with theoretical, experimental, and numerical treatments of the …

The impact of liquid droplets on solid surfaces is a complex multiphase flow abounding with
numerous applications, particularly in heat and mass transfer fields. Though this research …

To study ice adhesion at the droplet scale, a strategy is presented to simulate the impact and
solidification of a supercooled water droplet on a cooled substrate. Upon impact, nucleation …

Droplets impacting superhydrophobic surfaces have been extensively studied due to their
compelling scientific insights and important industrial applications. In these cases, the …

During the solidification of a sessile drop, the effect of heat exchange from the gaseous
environmental medium is generally ignored. However, by combining experimental …

Droplet impacting and freezing on solid surfaces are ubiquitous in nature and crucial to
many industrial applications, while the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon remains …

This study presents an experimental investigation of the impact of a supercooled drop onto
hydrophilic and superhydrophobic substrates. The aim is to better understand the process of …

The objective of this work was to elucidate how ice adhesion to solid substrates is related to
surface wettability, which, in turn, results from surface chemical composition and …

The freezing of droplets upon impact with solid walls is a common phenomenon that
significantly impacts various areas of social production. Therefore, it is essential to study the …