Computational ElectroHydroDynamics in microsystems: A Review of Challenges and Applications

C Narváez-Muñoz, AR Hashemi, MR Hashemi… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
The principle of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) processes relies on manipulating fluids using
electric forces. The advantage of EHD over other fluid manipulation approaches, such as …

Dynamics of non-coalescence in unequal sized, conducting multi-droplet system suspended in an insulating medium under an electric field

S Roy, V Anand, RM Thaokar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
An intriguing experimental observation in electrocoalescence of water-in-oil emulsions is the
occurrence of a very low critical electric field, beyond which chaining of droplets and …

Nonequilibrium structure formation in electrohydrodynamic emulsions

JI Kach, LM Walker, AS Khair - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Application of an electric field across the interface of two fluids with low, but non-zero,
conductivities gives rise to a sustained electrohydrodynamic (EHD) fluid flow. In the …

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 …

A spectral boundary integral method for simulating electrohydrodynamic flows in viscous drops

M Firouznia, SH Bryngelson, D Saintillan - Journal of Computational …, 2023 - Elsevier
A weakly conducting liquid droplet immersed in another leaky dielectric liquid can exhibit
rich dynamical behaviors under the effect of an applied electric field. Depending on material …

Tandem droplet locomotion in a uniform electric field

C Sorgentone, PM Vlahovska - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
An isolated charge-neutral droplet in a uniform electric field experiences no net force.
However, a droplet pair can move in response to field-induced dipolar and hydrodynamic …

Pairwise interactions of surfactant-covered drops in a uniform electric field

C Sorgentone, PM Vlahovska - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
We study the effect of surfactant on the pairwise interactions of drops in an applied uniform
dc electric field using a combination of numerical simulations based on a boundary integral …

Eccentricity-induced dielectrophoretic migration of a compound drop in a uniform external electric field

N Behera, A Poddar, S Chakraborty - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Eccentric compound drops, which are ubiquitous in many naturally inspired and engineering
systems, can migrate under the sole presence of a uniform electric field, unlike the case of …

Effectiveness and limitations of two drop studies to explain emulsion dehydration under modulated electric fields

R Hasib, VA Juvekar, RM Thaokar - AIChE Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocoalescence has long been known for the separation of a water‐in‐oil emulsion. An
associated challenge with electrocoalescers is the undesired noncoalescence and …

Quadrature by fundamental solutions: kernel-independent layer potential evaluation for large collections of simple objects

DB Stein, AH Barnett - Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2022 - Springer
Well-conditioned boundary integral methods for the solution of elliptic boundary value
problems (BVPs) are powerful tools for static and dynamic physical simulations. When there …