Nonequilibrium processes in polymer membrane formation: Theory and experiment

M Müller, V Abetz - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Porous polymer and copolymer membranes are useful for ultrafiltration of functional
macromolecules, colloids, and water purification. In particular, block copolymer membranes …

Transcritical diffuse-interface hydrodynamics of propellants in high-pressure combustors of chemical propulsion systems

L Jofre, J Urzay - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Rocket engines and high-power new generations of gas-turbine jet engines and diesel
engines oftentimes involve the injection of one or more reactants at subcritical temperatures …

Turbulent channel flow of dense suspensions of neutrally buoyant spheres

F Picano, WP Breugem, L Brandt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Dense particle suspensions are widely encountered in many applications and in
environmental flows. While many previous studies investigate their rheological properties in …

On energy dissipation theory and numerical stability for time-fractional phase-field equations

T Tang, H Yu, T Zhou - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2019 - SIAM
For the time-fractional phase-field models, the corresponding energy dissipation law has not
been well studied on both the continuous and the discrete levels. In this work, we address …

Diffuse interface modeling of three-phase contact line dynamics on curved boundaries: A lattice Boltzmann model for large density and viscosity ratios

A Fakhari, D Bolster - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
We introduce a simple and efficient lattice Boltzmann method for immiscible multiphase
flows, capable of handling large density and viscosity contrasts. The model is based on a …

Memoryless drop breakup in turbulence

A Vela-Martín, M Avila - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The breakup of drops and bubbles in turbulent fluids is a key mechanism in many
environmental and engineering processes. Even in the well-studied dilute case, quantitative …

A mass-conserving lattice Boltzmann method with dynamic grid refinement for immiscible two-phase flows

A Fakhari, M Geier, T Lee - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
A mass-conserving lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for multiphase flows is presented in this
paper. The proposed LBM improves a previous model (Lee and Liu, 2010 [21]) in terms of …

A weighted multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows and its application to partial coalescence cascades

A Fakhari, D Bolster, LS Luo - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with a weighted multiple-relaxation-time
(WMRT) collision model and an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm for direct …

A hybrid lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for droplet dynamics with insoluble surfactants

H Liu, Y Ba, L Wu, Z Li, G Xi, Y Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Droplet dynamics in microfluidic applications is significantly influenced by surfactants. It
remains a research challenge to model and simulate droplet behaviour including …

Breakage, coalescence and size distribution of surfactant-laden droplets in turbulent flow

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
In this work, we compute numerically breakage/coalescence rates and size distribution of
surfactant-laden droplets in turbulent flow. We use direct numerical simulation of turbulence …