Smectic and soap bubble optofluidic lasers

Z Korenjak, M Humar - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Soap bubbles are simple, yet very unique and marvelous objects. They exhibit a number of
interesting properties such as beautiful interference colors and the formation of minimal …

Multiscale modeling of membrane rearrangement, drainage, and rupture in evolving foams

RI Saye, JA Sethian - Science, 2013 - science.org
Modeling the physics of foams and foamlike materials, such as soapy froths, fire retardants,
and lightweight crash-absorbent structures, presents challenges, because of the vastly …

Implicit mesh discontinuous Galerkin methods and interfacial gauge methods for high-order accurate interface dynamics, with applications to surface tension dynamics …

R Saye - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this two-part paper, a high-order accurate implicit mesh discontinuous Galerkin (dG)
framework is developed for fluid interface dynamics, facilitating precise computation of …

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 …

A novel single-camera approach to large-scale, three-dimensional particle tracking based on glare-point spacing

J Hou, F Kaiser, A Sciacchitano, DE Rival - Experiments in Fluids, 2021 - Springer
A novel method for three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is proposed that
enables flow measurements in large volumes V= O (10 V= O (10 m^ 3 3) using a single …

Ultrafast imaging method to measure surface tension and viscosity of inkjet-printed droplets in flight

HJJ Staat, A van der Bos, M van den Berg… - Experiments in …, 2017 - Springer
In modern drop-on-demand inkjet printing, the jetted droplets contain a mixture of solvents,
pigments and surfactants. In order to accurately control the droplet formation process, its in …

[HTML][HTML] Bubble 36Ar and its new breathing modes

G Ren, CW Ma, XG Cao, YG Ma - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
The bubble nuclei are important components of exotic nuclear structures characterized by
special depletions of central densities. Focusing on bubble structures of 36 Ar, the …

Hydrodynamic flows on curved surfaces: Spectral numerical methods for radial manifold shapes

BJ Gross, PJ Atzberger - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
We formulate hydrodynamic equations and spectrally accurate numerical methods for
investigating the role of geometry in flows within two-dimensional fluid interfaces. To achieve …

Droplet oscillations in a turbulent flow

I Roa, MC Renoult, C Dumouchel… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The oscillations of an initially unperturbed spherical droplet immersed in a homogeneous
and isotropic turbulent background flow are investigated through spherical harmonic …

The subdivision-based IGA-EIEQ numerical scheme for the Navier–Stokes equations coupled with Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model of two-phase incompressible flow …

Q Pan, Y Huang, T Rabczuk, X Yang - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
We develop an accurate and robust numerical scheme for solving the incompressible
hydrodynamically coupled Cahn–Hilliard system of the two-phase fluid flow system on …