The science of foaming

W Drenckhan, A Saint-Jalmes - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The generation of liquid foams is at the heart of numerous natural, technical or scientific
processes. Even though the subject of foam generation has a long-standing history, many …

Dislodging a sessile drop by a high-Reynolds-number shear flow at subfreezing temperatures

IV Roisman, A Criscione, C Tropea, DK Mandal… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The drop, exposed to an air flow parallel to the substrate, starts to dislodge when the air
velocity reaches some threshold value, which depends on the substrate wetting properties …

Pressure drop-based determination of dynamic interfacial tension of droplet generation process in T-junction microchannel

X Wang, A Riaud, K Wang, G Luo - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2015 - Springer
The dynamic interfacial tension caused by the lower surfactant adsorption rate than the
droplet generation rate is an important issue in microfluidic study. A pressure drop …

Influence of agitation on primary nucleation in stirred tank crystallizers

J Liu, M Svard, ÅC Rasmuson - Crystal Growth & Design, 2015 - ACS Publications
The influence of agitation on nucleation of butyl paraben and m-hydroxybenzoic acid
polymorphs has been investigated through 330 cooling crystallization experiments. The …

Enhancing and suppressing effects of an inner droplet on deformation of a double emulsion droplet under shear

Y Chen, X Liu, C Zhang, Y Zhao - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We combine experimental investigation with numerical simulation to explore fundamental
hydrodynamic effects of an inner droplet on deformation of a double emulsion droplet under …

Numerical simulation of droplet detachment from solid walls under gravity force using lattice Boltzmann method

SEM Tilehboni, E Fattahi, HH Afrouzi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, interparticle potential model (Shan and Chen) of lattice Boltzmann method is
employed to simulate the dripping and detachment of immiscible droplet under gravity force …

CFD simulation of equilibrium shape and coalescence of ferrofluid droplets subjected to uniform magnetic field

A Ghaffari, SH Hashemabadi, M Bazmi - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study a computational framework has been presented to simulate the equilibrium
shape and coalescence behavior of suspended ferrofluid droplets subjected to uniform …

A microdevice for producing monodispersed droplets under a jetting flow

YK Li, GT Liu, JH Xu, K Wang, GS Luo - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A new microdevice by extending capillaries into a step microchannel for generating
monodispersed droplets was specially designed. A much wider narrowing jetting flow …

Numerical study of turbulent liquid‐liquid dispersions

AE Komrakova, D Eskin, JJ Derksen - AIChE Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A numerical approach is developed to gain fundamental insight in liquid‐liquid dispersion
formation under well‐controlled turbulent conditions. The approach is based on a free …

Computational models in microfluidic bubble logic

P Anandan, S Gagliano, M Bucolo - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2015 - Springer
The recent advancements in bubble\, logic bubblelogic computation based on two-phase
microfluidics bring into light the possibility that the use of bubbles in microfluidic devices can …