Purpose The purpose of this study is to perform a detailed review on the numerical modeling
of multiphase and multicomponent flows in microfluidic system using phase-field method …

When a charge neutral drop impacts on a flat solid substrate, a small air bubble is always
trapped underneath due to the lubrication pressure coming from the viscous stress in the …

A visualization experiment was conducted to investigate the electrohydrodynamic
deformation of droplets in a combined DC electric field and shear flow field. Detailed …

Double emulsions are encapsulated microstructures with medical, food, and cosmetics
applications. Precise control over their parameters, such as volume, thickness, and size …

In this work, a numerical model for the simulation of two-phase electrohydrodynamic (EHD)
problems is proposed. It is characterized by a physically consistent treatment of surface …

A hybrid method is developed for simulation of electrohydrodynamics interfacial flows. This
method uses a lattice Boltzmann color model to describe the immiscible two-phase flow and …

A numerical investigation of droplet bouncing and heat transfer over a heated surface in the
presence of an external electric field has been reported. The coupled set of governing …

The effect of the fluid viscosity ratio on the transient deformation of a droplet is investigated.
A numerical model is developed by employing the phase field method to capture the …

Acoustic levitation can be employed to hold liquid drops in midair, enabling novel
applications in X-ray scattering of proteins, amorphous crystallization of solutions, or …

In this work, we present a means of controlling the cross-stream trajectory of a compound
drop under the combined action of a transverse electric field and an oscillatory axial …