Droplet impacting dynamics: Recent progress and future aspects

X Wang, B Xu, S Guo, Y Zhao, Z Chen - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Droplet impact behaviours are widely applied in a variety of domains including self-cleaning,
painting and coating, corrosion of turbine blades and aircraft, separation and oil repellency …

Physics of droplet impact on various substrates and its current advancements in interfacial science: A review

A Mohammad Karim - Journal of Applied Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet impact dynamics is an interfacial phenomenon that is shown everywhere in nature
and is the underlying of numerous technological applications including bio-printing, tissue …

Enhancing droplet deposition on wired and curved superhydrophobic leaves

M Song, D Hu, X Zheng, L Wang, Z Yu, W An, R Na… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Droplet deposition on superhydrophobic surfaces has been a great challenge owing to the
shortness of the impact contact time. Despite recent research progress regarding flat …

The effect of droplet sizes on overspray in aerosol‐jet printing

G Chen, Y Gu, H Tsang, DR Hines… - Advanced Engineering …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most important concerns of aerosol‐jet based printing (AJP) is the substantial
amount of overspray (OS) that can accompany printed traces. In this study, the authors …

Soft matter science and the COVID-19 pandemic

WCK Poon, AT Brown, SOL Direito, DJM Hodgson… - Soft matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Much of the science underpinning the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the
soft matter domain. Coronaviruses are composite particles with a core of nucleic acids …

Droplet impact on soft viscoelastic surfaces

L Chen, E Bonaccurso, P Deng, H Zhang - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
In this work, we experimentally investigate the impact of water droplets onto soft viscoelastic
surfaces with a wide range of impact velocities. Several impact phenomena, which depend …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive solver for viscoelastic incompressible two-phase problems applied to the study of the splashing of weakly viscoelastic droplets

JM López-Herrera, S Popinet… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose an adaptive numerical solver for the study of viscoelastic 2D two-phase flows
using the volume-of-fluid method. The scheme uses the robust log conformation tensor …

Impact dynamics of aqueous polymer droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

L Chen, Y Wang, X Peng, Q Zhu, K Zhang - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Controlling the impact of water droplets on nonwetting surfaces is difficult due to their
superior liquid repellency. Herein, we experimentally demonstrate that the impact dynamics …

Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids

AC Yu, H Lopez Hernandez, AH Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Polyphosphate fire retardants are a critical tactical resource for fighting fires in the wildland
and in the wildland–urban interface. Yet, application of these retardants is limited to …

Physics of droplet impact on flexible materials: A review

A Mohammad Karim - Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Droplet impact on a flexible substrate is a prevalent phenomenon in nature and various
advanced technologies such as soft bio-printing, tissue engineering, smart biomaterials and …