This experimental study focuses on quantifying and understanding the e ects of external acoustical perturbations on condensed phase combustion pro cesses In the present con guration a burning liquid methanol droplet is suspended within an essentially one dimensional acoustic waveguide where standing waves of variable frequency and amplitude are gen erated by a loudspeaker placed at the end of t...

Channel-fouling is a pervasive problem in continuous flow chemistry, causing poor product control and reactor failure. Droplet chemistry, in which the reaction mixture flows as discrete droplets inside an immiscible carrier liquid, prevents fouling by isolating the reaction from the channel walls. Unfortunately, the difficulty of controllably adding new reagents to an existing droplet stream ha...

While the threshold of splashing when liquid droplets impact against rigid solid surfaces is known to be related to the Weber number (We), the effect of ambient gas pressure (or density) and the impact angle have not been systematically studied. In this study, we examine the effects of droplet velocity, impact angle, and ambient gas pressure (or density) on the threshold of splashing. In our me...

We demonstrate a liquid crystal (LC) droplet whose surface profile could be deformed by a fringing field. In the voltage-off state, the LC droplet exhibits a pillared shape by touching both substrates. As the voltage increases, such a droplet could be stretched to a cone-like shape or thin film. For a 1.5 mm aperture LC droplet, its occupied area could be expanded by ∼4.3× at 6.5 Vrms μm−1. Upo...

This paper reports experimental and numerical results of the deformation of a ferrofluid droplet on a superhydrophobic surface under the effect of a uniform magnetic field. A water-based ferrofluid droplet surrounded by immiscible mineral oil was stretched by a magnetic field parallel to the substrate surface. The results show that an increasing flux density increases the droplet width and decr...

We report that a droplet dispensed from a micropipette almost always has a considerable electrical charge of a magnitude dependent on the constituents of the droplet, on atmospheric humidity and on the coating material of pipette tip. We show that this natural electrification of a droplet originates from the charge separation between a droplet and pipette tip surface by contact with water due t...

[1] A combination of cloud-top and columnar droplet sizes derived from the multi Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) sensors reveals the sensitivity of the aerosols effect on cloud-precipitation processes due to environmental vertical thermodynamic structure. First, the magnitude of aerosol indirect effect could be larger with the analysis of columnar droplet sizes than that derived fr...

The evaporation and the thermal accommodation coefficients for water in nitrogen were investigated by means of the analysis of evaporation of pure water droplet as a function of temperature. The droplet was levitated in an electrodynamic trap placed in a climatic chamber. The levitation time was in the range of seconds, which corresponds to the characteristic time scales of cloud droplet growth...

We study the morphologies of single liquid droplets wetting a substrate in the presence of the line tension of the three-phase contact line. On a homogeneous substrate, the line tension leads to a discontinuous unbinding of the droplet if its volume is decreased below a critical value. For a droplet wetting a structured surface with a circular domain, a line tension contrast gives rise to disco...

The present study investigated the unsteady transport of droplets exhaled by an index passenger in an aircraft cabin using the CFD simulations. A section of twin aisle cabin with seven-rows and full occupancy was studied. It was found that the expiratory droplet cloud was initially dense and moved to specific zones. The droplet concentrations were higher in these zones. The droplet concentratio...