The gravity-driven motion of a droplet impacting on a liquid–liquid interface is studied. The full Navier–Stokes equations are solved on a fixed, uniform grid using a finite difference/front-capturing method. For the representation of fluid–fluid interfaces, a coupled Level-Set/Volume-Of-Fluid method [M. Sussman, E.G. Puckett, A coupled Level-Set and Volume-of-Fluid method for computing 3D and ...

We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical study of drop coalescence in the presence of an initial temperature difference 1T0 between a drop and a bath of the same liquid. We characterize experimentally the dependence of the residence time before coalescence on 1T0 for silicone oils with different viscosities. Delayed coalescence arises above a critical temperature differ...

Abstract—We report in this paper the evolution of a physically based drop size distribution coupling the Maximum Entropy Formalism and the Monte Carlo method to solve the coagulation equation. Using the discrete or continuous population balance equation, the Mass Flow Algorithm is formulated taking into account interactions between droplets via coalescence. After proposing a kernel for coalesce...

Surface energy released upon drop coalescence is known to power the self-propelled jumping of liquid droplets on superhydrophobic solid surfaces, and the jumping droplets can additionally carry colloidal payloads toward self-cleaning. Here, we show that drop coalescence on a spherical particle leads to self-propelled launching of the particle from virtually any solid surface. The main prerequis...

Liquid-liquid dispersions are commonly used for separations and reaction systems, because the added interfacial area due to dispersion aids in mass transfer and chemical reaction rates. Transient coalescence experiments have been performed for a wide range of dispersed-phase fractions and impeller speeds. A similarity transformation of the experimental drop-size distribution is possible for mos...

When an aqueous drop contacts immiscible oil film, it displays complex interfacial dynamics. Upon contact the spreads onto drop's liquid-air interface, first forming a curvature that drives apparent spreading motion and later fully engulfing drop. We study this flow using both 3-phase Lattice-Boltzmann simulations based on conservative phase field model experiments. Inertially viscously limited...

The size dependence of the drop coalescence frequency is investigated by measurement of transient drop size distributions in purely coalescing systems (with negligible drop break-up). A twopronged approach is employed to estimate the bivariate coalescence frequency function, using such experimental data. First, coalescence frequency expressions derived from mechanistic models of the relative mo...

Ballistospore discharge is a feature of 30000 species of mushrooms, basidiomycete yeasts and pathogenic rusts and smuts. The biomechanics of discharge may involve an abrupt change in the center of mass associated with the coalescence of Buller's drop and the spore. However this process occurs so rapidly that the launch of the ballistospore has never been visualized. Here we report ultra high-sp...

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