Droplet collision of hypergolic propellants

C He, ZX He, P Zhang - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the present mini‐review, droplet impacting on a liquid pool, jet impingement, and binary
droplet collision of nonreacting liquids are first summarized in terms of basic phenomena …

Universality in the viscous-to-inertial coalescence of liquid droplets

X Xia, C He, P Zhang - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We present a theory on the coalescence of 2 spherical liquid droplets that are initially
stationary. The evolution of the radius of a liquid neck formed upon coalescence was …

Role of surfactant-induced Marangoni stresses in drop-interface coalescence

CR Constante-Amores, A Batchvarov… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We study the effect of surfactants on the dynamics of a drop-interface coalescence using full
three-dimensional direct numerical simulations. We employ a hybrid interface-tracking/level …

Non-monotonic viscous dissipation of bouncing droplets undergoing off-center collision

C He, X Xia, P Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The off-center collision of binary bouncing droplets of equal size was studied numerically by
a volume-of-fluid method with two marker functions, which has been justified and validated …

Symmetry-Breaking-Induced Internal Mixing Enhancement of Droplet Collision

Y Leng, C He, Q Wang, Z He, N Simms, P Zhang - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
Binary droplet collision is a basic fluid phenomenon for many spray processes in nature and
industry involving lots of discrete droplets. It exists an inherent mirror symmetry between two …

Surface jets and internal mixing during the coalescence of impacting and sessile droplets

TC Sykes, AA Castrejón-Pita, JR Castrejón-Pita… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
The internal dynamics during the coalescence of a sessile droplet and a subsequently
deposited impacting droplet, with either identical or distinct surface tension, is studied …

Enhanced mixing of binary droplets induced by capillary pressure

X Luo, H Yin, J Ren, H Yan, X Huang, D Yang… - Journal of colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mixing of binary droplets is of paramount importance in microfluidic systems. In order to
reveal the mixing mechanism of two free droplets suspended in the immiscible phase, we …

Vortex-dynamical implications of nonmonotonic viscous dissipation of off-center droplet bouncing

C He, X Xia, P Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, vortex-dynamical perspectives were adopted to interpret the recently reported
observation that the total viscous dissipation of off-center droplet bouncing varies …

Oblique bouncing of a droplet from a non-slip boundary: Computational realization and application of self-spin droplets

C He, Z He, P Zhang - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies have demonstrated the significance of droplet spinning motion on droplet
collision outcomes and raised the question of generating spinning droplets in an …

Relaxation and contact angle dynamics during the coalescence of different sized vertically aligned water drops in different silicone oil viscosities

M Brik, S Harmand, I Zaaroura - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reports an experimental investigation for the impact of the head drop size as well
as the outer phase viscosity on the coalescence time of two water drops vertically aligned in …