Computational microfluidics for geosciences

C Soulaine, J Maes, S Roman - Frontiers in Water, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Computational microfluidics for geosciences is the third leg of the scientific strategy that
includes microfluidic experiments and high-resolution imaging for deciphering coupled …

Wettability in complex porous materials, the mixed-wet state, and its relationship to surface roughness

A AlRatrout, MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
A quantitative in situ characterization of the impact of surface roughness on wettability in
porous media is currently lacking. We use reservoir condition micrometer-resolution X-ray …

Evaporation of binary-mixture liquid droplets: the formation of picoliter pancakelike shapes

AA Pahlavan, L Yang, CD Bain, HA Stone - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Small multicomponent droplets are of increasing importance in a plethora of technological
applications ranging from the fabrication of self-assembled hierarchical patterns to the …

A perspective on applied geochemistry in porous media: Reactive transport modeling of geochemical dynamics and the interplay with flow phenomena and physical …

H Deng, M Gharasoo, L Zhang, Z Dai, A Hajizadeh… - Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
In many practical geochemical systems that are at the center of providing indispensable
energy, resources and service to our society,(bio) geochemical reactions are coupled with …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of modified graphene oxide (GO) nanofluid on wettability and IFT changes: Experimental study for EOR applications

E Jafarbeigi, F Salimi, E Kamari, M Mansouri - Petroleum Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of nanoparticles (NPs) in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) offers a practical
approach to resolving some surface-related problems encountered in contemporary …

Thermodynamic-driven polychromatic quantum dot patterning for light-emitting diodes beyond eye-limiting resolution

TW Nam, M Kim, Y Wang, GY Kim, W Choi… - nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The next-generation wearable near-eye displays inevitably require extremely high pixel
density due to significant decrease in the viewing distance. For such denser and smaller …

Rogue nanowaves: A route to film rupture

JE Sprittles, J Liu, DA Lockerby, T Grafke - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Sufficiently thin liquid films on solid surfaces are often unstable to intermolecular forces and
it is commonly assumed that their rupture occurs via a linear instability mechanism in the so …

A hydro-osmotic coarsening theory of biological cavity formation

M Le Verge-Serandour, H Turlier - PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Fluid-filled biological cavities are ubiquitous, but their collective dynamics has remained
largely unexplored from a physical perspective. Based on experimental observations in …

Thermal capillary waves on bounded nanoscale thin films

J Liu, C Zhao, DA Lockerby, JE Sprittles - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
The effect of confining walls on the fluctuation of a nanoscale thin film's free surface is
studied using stochastic thin-film equations (STFEs). Two canonical boundary conditions are …

Fluctuation-driven dynamics in nanoscale thin-film flows: physical insights from numerical investigations

C Zhao, J Liu, DA Lockerby, JE Sprittles - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The effects of thermal fluctuations on nanoscale flows are captured by a numerical scheme
that is underpinned by fluctuating hydrodynamics. A stochastic lubrication equation (SLE) is …