Electrohydrodynamics of drops and vesicles

PM Vlahovska - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The 1969 review by JR Melcher and GI Taylor defined the field of electrohydrodynamics.
Fifty years on, the interaction of weakly conducting (leaky dielectric) fluids with electric fields …

Electro-hydrodynamics of emulsion droplets: physical insights to applications

MS Abbasi, R Song, S Cho, J Lee - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The field of droplet electrohydrodynamics (EHD) emerged with a seminal work of GI Taylor
in 1966, who presented the so-called leaky dielectric model (LDM) to predict the droplet …

Air entrapment of a neutral drop impacting onto a flat solid surface in electric fields

Y Tian, Y Liu, Z Peng, C Xu, D Ye, Y Guan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
When a charge neutral drop impacts on a flat solid substrate, a small air bubble is always
trapped underneath due to the lubrication pressure coming from the viscous stress in the …

Electrospray beam currents in the cone-jet mode based on numerical simulation

X Suo, K Zhang, X Huang, D Wang, H Jia, F Yang… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electrospray technology is widely used in many technological areas. The beam current of
electrospray is an important parameter since it directly associates with the …

Numerical analysis of two-phase electrohydrodynamic flows in the presence of surface charge convection

K Luo, J Wu, HL Yi, HP Tan - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The mechanism of surface charge convection (SCC) reveals inherently nonlinear coupling
between the electrostatic problem and the hydrodynamic flow in the Melcher–Taylor …

Simulation of electrospray emission processes for low to moderate conductivity liquids

H Huh, RE Wirz - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The leaky-dielectric model is incorporated in the Finite Volume Method (FVM) code,
OpenFOAM, to investigate the electrospray emission behavior of low to moderate …

Conical breakup of droplets in dielectric liquid medium

D Wang, J Wang, D Wang, L Zuo, J Gao, H Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The conical breakup behavior of droplets in immiscible dielectric liquids under non-uniform
alternating current (AC) electric fields is experimentally investigated using high-speed …

Regulating air cushioning and bubble entrapment in charged droplet impact via external electric fields

Y Tian, B Wang, C Zhao, W Lai, Y Guan, W Deng… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Air cushioning and bubble entrapment are common phenomena observed during low-
velocity droplet impact on solid or fluid surfaces, whereby a thin layer of air mediates the …

A transient solution for electric field driven orientation and deformation of the angled droplet

T Asadollahi, NG Ebrahimi - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, the transient electric field driven orientation and deformation of the droplet is
investigated theoretically, with the innovation that the main axis of the droplet is not aligned …

Electrohydrodynamic-induced interactions between droplets

SK Das, A Dalal, G Tomar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Dispersion of droplets in an emulsion is commonly seen in several chemical,
pharmaceutical and petroleum industries. Electric field has been shown to affect the stability …