We present a theoretical study related to a recent experiment on the coalescence of sessile drops. The study deals with the kinetics of relaxation towards equilibrium, under the action of surface tension, of a spheroidal drop on a flat surface. For such a nonspherical drop under partial wetting conditions, the dynamic contact angle varies along the contact line. We propose a new nonlocal approa...

Issues of surfaces, e.g., inspired from beetle's back, spider silk, cactus stem, etc., become the active area of research on designing novel materials in need of human beings to acquire fresh water resource from air. However, the design of materials on surface structure is little achieved on controlling of micro-scale drop transport in a long distance. Here, we report the ability of micro-drop ...

Droplet (fluid) -droplet (fluid) interaction: A numerical investigation of binary droplet collisions in a gaseous phase has been conducted as part of the coalescence modeling project. A volume of fluid (VOF) based interface capturing method, which is characterized by introducing an extra artificial compression term into the volume-fraction transport equation, is employed to capture the liquid-g...

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Experimental data from batch vessels on cumulative volumetric drop-size distributions at various times are shown to yield useful information on probabilities of droplet-breakup as a function of drop-size. Such information is sufficient for a priori prediction of drop-sizes in agitated dispersions in batch and continuous vessels. It may also be useful in predicting heat and/or mass transfer in l...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t We investigate the applicability and performance of diffuse interface methods on a dual-resolution grid in solving two-phase flows. In the diffuse interface methods, the interface thickness represents a cutoff length scale in resolving the interfacial dynamics, and it was found that an apparent loss of mass occurs when the interface thickness is comparable ...

The importance of modeling liquid drops collisions (see figure 1) is due to the existence of natural and engineering process where it is useful to understand the droplets dynamics in specific phenomena. Examples of applications are the combustion of fuel sprays, spray coating, emulsification, waste treatment and raindrop formation (Bozzano & Dente, 2010; Bradley & Stow, 1978;Park & Blair, 1975;...