The dynamics of the piezo inkjet printhead operation

H Wijshoff - Physics reports, 2010 - Elsevier
The operation of a piezo inkjet printhead involves a chain of processes in many physical
domains at different length scales. The final goal is the formation of droplets of all kinds of …

Physical modelling and advanced simulations of gas–liquid two-phase jet flows in atomization and sprays

X Jiang, GA Siamas, K Jagus… - Progress in energy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review attempts to summarize the physical models and advanced methods used in
computational studies of gas–liquid two-phase jet flows encountered in atomization and …

Dripping to jetting transitions in coflowing liquid streams

AS Utada, A Fernandez-Nieves, HA Stone, DA Weitz - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
A liquid forced through an orifice into an immiscible fluid ultimately breaks into drops due to
surface tension. Drop formation can occur right at the orifice in a dripping process …

Review of theory of distortion and disintegration of liquid streams

WA Sirignano, C Mehring - Progress in energy and combustion science, 2000 - Elsevier
Linear and nonlinear analyses of the instabilities and distortion of liquid streams injected
into a gaseous media are discussed. The various fundamental mechanisms and the …

Computational and experimental analysis of dynamics of drop formation

ED Wilkes, SD Phillips, OA Basaran - Physics of fluids, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamics of formation of a drop of a Newtonian liquid from a capillary tube into an ambient
gas phase is studied computationally and experimentally. While this problem has previously …

Volume tracking of interfaces having surface tension in two and three dimensions

D Kothe, W Rider, S Mosso, J Brock… - 34th aerospace sciences …, 1996 - arc.aiaa.org
Solution algorithms are presented for tracking interfaces with piecewise linear (PLJQ volume-
of-fluid (VOF) methods on Eulerian grids (structured and unstructured) in two and three …

Microfluidic droplet generation based on non-embedded co-flow-focusing using 3D printed nozzle

A Dewandre, J Rivero-Rodriguez, Y Vitry, B Sobac… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Most commercial microfluidic droplet generators rely on the planar flow-focusing
configuration implemented in polymer or glass chips. The planar geometry, however, suffers …

Drop formation from a capillary tube: Comparison of one-dimensional and two-dimensional analyses and occurrence of satellite drops

B Ambravaneswaran, ED Wilkes, OA Basaran - Physics of Fluids, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The axisymmetric formation of drops of Newtonian liquids from a vertical capillary into air is
governed by the three-dimensional but axisymmetric Navier–Stokes system and appropriate …

A novel technique for including surface tension in PLIC-VOF methods

M Meier, G Yadigaroglu, BL Smith - European Journal of Mechanics-B …, 2002 - Elsevier
Various versions of Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) methods have been used successfully for the
numerical simulation of gas-liquid flows with an explicit tracking of the phase interface. Of …

An experimental study of particle effects on drop formation

RJ Furbank, JF Morris - Physics of Fluids, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The formation of drops of particulate suspensions composed of spherical, neutrally buoyant,
noncolloidal particles in a viscous liquid is examined experimentally. The suspensions are …