Lattice Boltzmann simulations for soft flowing matter

A Tiribocchi, M Durve, M Lauricella, A Montessori… - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, the Lattice Boltzmann method has found major scope for the
simulation of a large spectrum of problems in soft matter, from multiphase and multi …

Tuning of regimes during two-phase flow through a cross-junction

MP Boruah, A Sarker, PR Randive, S Pati, KC Sahu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the dynamics of two immiscible fluids in a cross-junction via three-
dimensional numerical simulations using the volume of fluid approach to track the dispersed …

Spontaneous motion of a passive fluid droplet in an active microchannel

A Tiribocchi, M Durve, M Lauricella, A Montessori… - Soft matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We numerically study the dynamics of a passive fluid droplet confined within a microchannel
whose walls are covered with a thin layer of active gel. The latter represents a fluid of …

[HTML][HTML] Special issue on the lattice Boltzmann method

C Shu, N Phan-Thien - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
As computer hardware and numerical algorithms are quickly developing at a phenomenal
rate, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is playing a more important role in the investigation …

Morpho-dynamic evolution due to inertia-mediated impact of a compound drop on a deep liquid pool

MP Boruah, PR Randive, S Pati, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A compound drop impacting on a liquid pool exhibits intriguing coalescence patterns that
are primarily attributable to the complicated interplay of inertia with other physical …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation and breakup dynamics of droplets within a tapered channel

A Montessori, ML Rocca, P Prestininzi, A Tiribocchi… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we numerically investigate the breakup dynamics of droplets in an emulsion
flowing in a tapered microchannel with a narrow constriction. The mesoscale approach for …

The role of compound droplet size on transition from jetting to bubble entrapment during its impact on liquid

A Sarker, MP Boruah, PR Randive, S Pati - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Inertia has always proven to be a key parameter in controlling regime transitions when
simple drops impact a liquid surface. However, the scenario of compound drops impacting a …

Lattice Boltzmann methods for soft flowing matter

A Tiribocchi, M Durve, M Lauricella… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the last decade, the Lattice Boltzmann method has found major scope for the
simulation of a large spectrum of problems in soft matter, from multiphase and multi …

Morphology of multicore compound drops in oscillatory shear flows

SN Jadhav, U Ghosh - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2023 - Springer
Dynamics and morphology of two-dimensional multicore (dual and triple core) compound
drops, subjected to oscillating shear flows have been addressed in this work. We use the …

Dynamics of polydisperse multiple emulsions in microfluidic channels

A Tiribocchi, A Montessori, M Durve, F Bonaccorso… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Multiple emulsions are a class of soft fluid in which small drops are immersed within a larger
one and stabilized over long periods of time by a surfactant. We recently showed that, if a …