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 …

Nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of slightly deformed oblate drops

JA Lanauze, LM Walker, AS Khair - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
The transient deformation of a weakly conducting ('leaky dielectric') drop under a uniform DC
electric field is computed via an axisymmetric boundary integral method, which accounts for …

A nonlinear small-deformation theory for transient droplet electrohydrodynamics

D Das, D Saintillan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The deformation of a viscous liquid droplet suspended in another liquid and subject to an
applied electric field is a classic multiphase flow problem best described by the Melcher …

Uniform electric-field-induced lateral migration of a sedimenting drop

A Bandopadhyay, S Mandal, NK Kishore… - Journal of Fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We investigate the motion of a sedimenting drop in the presence of an electric field in an
arbitrary direction, otherwise uniform, in the limit of small interface deformation and low …

Electrohydrodynamics of viscous drops in strong electric fields: numerical simulations

D Das, D Saintillan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Weakly conducting dielectric liquid drops suspended in another dielectric liquid and subject
to an applied uniform electric field exhibit a wide range of dynamical behaviours contingent …

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 …

Effect of viscosity ratio on the dynamic response of droplet deformation under a steady electric field

Z Jiang, Y Gan, Y Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of the fluid viscosity ratio on the transient deformation of a droplet is investigated.
A numerical model is developed by employing the phase field method to capture 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 …