Coalescence dynamics

J Eggers, JE Sprittles, JH Snoeijer - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The merging of two fluid drops is one of the fundamental topological transitions occurring in
free surface flow. Its description has many applications, for example, in the chemical industry …

Coalescence of bubbles and drops in an outer fluid

JD Paulsen, R Carmigniani, A Kannan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
When two liquid drops touch, a microscopic connecting liquid bridge forms and rapidly
grows as the two drops merge into one. Whereas coalescence has been thoroughly studied …

[PDF][PDF] Coalescence dynamics

J Snoeijer, JE Sprittles… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2025 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
The merging of two fluid drops is one of the fundamental topological transitions occurring in
free surface flow. Its description has many applications, for example in the chemical industry …

[HTML][HTML] Coalescence-induced jumping of droplet: Inertia and viscosity effects

S Farokhirad, JF Morris, T Lee - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The problem of coalescence-induced self-propelled jumping of droplet is studied using three-
dimensional numerical simulation. The focus is on the effect of inertia and in particular the …

Self-enhancement of coalescence-induced droplet jumping on superhydrophobic surfaces with an asymmetric V-groove

D Lu, M Zhao, H Zhang, Y Yang, Y Zheng - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Coalescence-induced droplet jumping on superhydrophobic surfaces have recently
received significant attention owing to their potential in a variety of applications. Previous …

Droplet coalescence by molecular dynamics and phase-field modeling

M Heinen, M Hoffmann, F Diewald, S Seckler… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Coalescence of argon droplets with a radius of 25, 50, and 100 nm is studied with
computational methods. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are carried out to generate …

Coalescence-induced jumping of micro-droplets on heterogeneous superhydrophobic surfaces

R Attarzadeh, A Dolatabadi - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The phenomenon of droplets coalescence-induced self-propelled jumping on
homogeneous and heterogeneous superhydrophobic surfaces was numerically modeled …

Free-energy-based lattice Boltzmann model for the simulation of multiphase flows with density contrast

JY Shao, C Shu, HB Huang, YT Chew - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
A free-energy-based phase-field lattice Boltzmann method is proposed in this work to
simulate multiphase flows with density contrast. The present method is to improve the Zheng …

Approach and coalescence of liquid drops in air

JD Paulsen - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
The coalescence of liquid drops has conventionally been thought to have just two regimes
when the drops are brought together slowly in vacuum or air: a viscous regime …

Coalescence-induced self-propulsion of droplets on superomniphobic surfaces

H Vahabi, W Wang, S Davies, JM Mabry… - ACS applied materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We utilized superomniphobic surfaces to systematically investigate the different regimes of
coalescence-induced self-propulsion of liquid droplets with a wide range of droplet radii …