Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Particle-laden and droplet-laden two-phase flows past bodies (a review)

AY Varaksin, SV Ryzhkov - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
A review of computational–theoretical and experimental works devoted to the study of the
flow of bodies by two-phase (dispersed) flows is carried out. The features of particle motion …

Regulation of droplet impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces: Coupled effects of macrostructures, wettability patterns, and surface motion

F Chu, S Li, Z Hu, X Wu - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces have shown great application prospects due to their excellent
water repellency in many applications involving fluid–surface interactions. As a ubiquitous …

Drop impact dynamics on solid surfaces

W Fang, K Zhang, Q Jiang, C Lv, C Sun, Q Li… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Drop impact on solid surfaces widely occurs both in nature and engineering. In this
Perspective, we review the recent advances in experimental, theoretical, and numerical …

Contact time of droplet impact on inclined ridged superhydrophobic surfaces

Z Hu, F Chu, Y Lin, X Wu - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Superhydrophobic surfaces decorated with macrostructures have attracted extensive
attention due to their excellent performance of reducing the contact time of impacting …

Design principle of ridge-textured superhydrophobic surfaces for inducing pancake bouncing

Z Hu, F Chu, X Wu - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing contact time of droplets impacting on solid surfaces plays an important role in
various applications such as anti-icing and energy harvesting. Pancake bouncing on …

Surface design of superhydrophobic parallel grooves for controllable petal bouncing and contact time reduction

J Du, X Wang, Y Li, Q Min - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This study numerically investigates the bouncing characteristics of impacting droplets on
superhydrophobic sub-millimeter parallel grooves by the level-set method. Once the Weber …

Computational and analytical investigation of droplet impingement and spreading dynamics around the right circular cone

PC Sahoo, JR Senapati, BK Rana - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Numerical computations are performed to elucidate the water droplet impingement and
spreading dynamics around a small right-angled circular cone suspended in the air. An …

Droplet impact dynamics over a range of capillary numbers and surface wettability: Assessment of moving contact line models and energy budget analysis

ND Patil, J Shaikh, A Sharma, R Bhardwaj - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Bouncing and non-bouncing impact dynamics of a droplet on a solid surface are studied
experimentally and numerically. High-speed visualization and an in-house dual-grid level …

Enhanced horizontal mobility of a coalesced jumping droplet on superhydrophobic surfaces with an asymmetric ridge

S Gao, Z Hu, X Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Enhancing the horizontal mobility of coalesced droplets on a plane could promote droplet
jumping. Here, we achieve enhanced horizontal mobility of a coalesced jumping droplet on …