Dropwise condensation processes, where condensation occurs through small droplets on a solid surface, has been demonstrated to significantly improve heat transfer rates in comparison to film-wise condensation (where a whole surface is covered by a thin film of liquid). Dropwise condensation usually takes place on superhydrophobic surfaces, and one of the main engineering and scientific challeng...

Initial jet usually has a large primary droplet hanging at flying end before the onset of effective electrospinning. The primary droplet is undesired as its diameter is several orders of magnitude higher than that of electrospun nanofibres. A new method is used to derive micro-scaled initial jet and fine primary droplet under applied small-aperture needle by utilizing low solution flow rate and...

BACKGROUND Controlled transport of microdroplets is a topic of interest for various applications. It is well known that liquid droplets move towards areas of minimum contact angle if placed on a flat solid surface exhibiting a gradient of contact angle. This effect can be utilised for droplet manipulation. In this contribution we describe how controlled droplet movement can be achieved by a sur...

This study investigates the droplet formation characteristics of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed during the ozonolysis of sesquiterpene β-caryophyllene (with and without hydroxyl radicals present). Emphasis is placed on understanding the role of semi-volatile material on Cloud Condensation Nucleus (CCN) activity and droplet 5 growth kinetics. Aging of β-caryophyllene SOA significantly af...

Droplet size spectra from different sprayers used to generate insecticide-laden fogs for controlling flying insects were measured by a laser diffraction instrument and Teflon-coated slides. The objectives of this work were to present not only information on spray-system droplet size generated by different sprayers, but to compare methodologies by which other similar systems can be evaluated and...

In this work, we have systematically analyzed the scaling law of droplet formation by cross-flow shear method in T-junction microfluidic devices. The droplet formation mechanisms can be distinguished by the capillary number for the continuous phase (Cac), which are the squeezing regime (Cac \ 0.002), dripping regime (0.01 \ Cac \ 0.3), and the transient regime (0.002 \ Cac\ 0.01). Three corresp...

We study drop impact for the case where impacted surface is cooled below freezing temperature of liquid droplet. The found to affect spreading dynamics impacting drops and, thus, degree coverage. cooling leads arrest three-phase contact line, impeding droplet drastically reducing maximum diameter. Besides temperature, speed also an important parameter: higher speed, more spreads before arrest. ...

Liquid fuels are still the primary power source due to its higher energy density and ease of operation compared to gas fuels. Thus a detailed understanding of the spray vaporization and combustion characteristics for various liquid fuels are very important, down to a single droplet. Owing to difficulties in performing droplet level investigation in an actual spray, the spray models are mostly d...