Shear-induced droplet deformation: Effects of confined geometry and viscoelasticity

S Guido - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2011 - Elsevier
Deformation and breakup of droplets is a key mechanism in the flow-induced evolution of
the microstructure of biphasic liquid–liquid systems, such as emulsions and polymer blends …

A review of crude oil emulsification and multiphase flows in chemical flooding

Y Zhou, D Yin, Y Li, J He… - Energy Science & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical flooding has become an important method to enhance oil recovery in high‐water
cut reservoirs. Crude oil emulsification often occurs during chemical flooding, and it plays a …

A novel organosilicon-type binder for LiCoO2 cathode in Li-ion batteries

J Ahn, HG Im, Y Lee, D Lee, H Jang, Y Oh… - Energy Storage …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conventional binder used in LIBs, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), possesses low
mechanical ductility and weak affinity to electrode materials and therefore cannot prevent …

Viscoelastic effects on the deformation and breakup of a droplet on a solid wall in Couette flow

N Wang, S Li, L Shi, X Yuan, H Liu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The deformation, movement and breakup of a wall-attached droplet subject to Couette flow
are systematically investigated using an enhanced lattice Boltzmann colour-gradient model …

Front tracking simulation of deformation and buckling instability of a liquid capsule enclosed by an elastic membrane

X Li, K Sarkar - Journal of Computational Physics, 2008 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a liquid capsule enclosed by an elastic membrane in a shear flow is
investigated using a front tracking finite difference method. We compute deformation …

A numerical approach for non-Newtonian two-phase flows using a conservative level-set method

A Amani, N Balcázar, A Naseri, J Rigola - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
A finite-volume based conservative level-set method is presented to numerically solve the
non-Newtonian multiphase flow problems. One set of governing equations is written for the …

Electroosmosis of viscoelastic fluids over charge modulated surfaces in narrow confinements

U Ghosh, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work, we attempt to analyze the electroosmotic flow of a viscoelastic fluid,
following quasi-linear constitutive behavior, over charge modulated surfaces in narrow …

Droplet deformation and breakup in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluid under simple shear flow

D Wang, N Wang, H Liu - Journal of Rheology, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method, which couples the color-gradient model for
two-phase fluid dynamics with a lattice diffusion-advection scheme for the elastic stress …

Deformation and breakup of viscoelastic droplets in confined shear flow

A Gupta, M Sbragaglia - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
The deformation and breakup of Newtonian and viscoelastic droplets are studied in confined
shear flow. Our numerical approach is based on a combination of lattice-Boltzmann models …

Hybrid lattice Boltzmann/finite difference simulations of viscoelastic multicomponent flows in confined geometries

A Gupta, M Sbragaglia, A Scagliarini - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids based on a hybrid algorithm
combining Lattice–Boltzmann models (LBM) and Finite Differences (FD) schemes, the …