Drop coalescence in technical liquid/liquid applications: A review on experimental techniques and modeling approaches

J Kamp, J Villwock, M Kraume - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2017 - degruyter.com
The coalescence phenomenon of drops in liquid/liquid systems is reviewed with particular
focus on its technical relevance and application. Due to the complexity of coalescence, a …

Recent initiatives in effective modeling of spray drying

R Razmi, H Jubaer, M Krempski-Smejda… - Drying …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Recent initiatives covered in this review can be divided into three broad categories. The first
category concerns mathematically describing the spray drying process using a plug-flow …

Bouncing off the walls: the influence of gas-kinetic and van der Waals effects in drop impact

MV Chubynsky, KI Belousov, DA Lockerby… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
A model is developed for liquid drop impact on a solid surface that captures the thin film gas
flow beneath the drop, even when the film's thickness is below the mean free path in the gas …

Direct numerical simulation of multiscale flow physics of binary droplet collision

X Chen, V Yang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations are performed to investigate the multiscale flow physics of
binary droplet collision over a wide range of Weber numbers and impact factors. All possible …

Numerical study of binary droplets collision in the main collision regimes

A Amani, N Balcazar, E Gutiérrez, A Oliva - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Direct numerical simulation of binary droplets collision is done using a conservative level-set
method. The Navier-Stokes and level-set equations are solved using a finite-volume method …

A state-of-the-art review on single drop study in liquid–liquid extraction: Experiments and simulations

J Zhang, Y Wang, GW Stevens, W Fei - Chinese Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
The experimental and numerical investigations of single drop in liquid/liquid extraction
system have been reviewed with particular focus on experimental techniques and …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of the local front reconstruction method with a diffuse interface model for the modeling of droplet collisions

AH Rajkotwala, EJ Gelissen, E Peters… - … Engineering Science: X, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study the authors compare two different simulation models for the modeling of
droplet collisions. The simulation models are: the Local Front Reconstruction Method …

Extension of local front reconstruction method with controlled coalescence model

AH Rajkotwala, H Mirsandi, E Peters, MW Baltussen… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The physics of droplet collisions involves a wide range of length scales. This poses a
challenge to accurately simulate such flows with standard fixed grid methods due to their …

Multi-scale simulation of droplet–droplet interaction and coalescence

NM Musehane, OF Oxtoby, BD Reddy - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, droplet–droplet interaction is modelled using a multi-scale approach which
couples multiphase flow simulation using a volume of fluid method to a surface thin film …

Toward the predictive simulation of bouncing versus coalescence in binary droplet collisions

M Liu, D Bothe - Acta Mechanica, 2019 - Springer
Multi-scale simulations have been conducted in order to predict the collision outcome
bouncing versus coalescence in numerical simulations. The flow on the macroscopic scale …