How surface microstructures affect Leidenfrost droplets.
Numerical results show that pillar size and spacing control vapour escape under the drop, which can delay or suppress the Leidenfrost state and modify droplet rebound.
🔗 https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/38/3/032007/3382441/Numerical-study-of-bouncing-Leidenfrost
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✨ Welcome Mélanie Bulois (DC#10) to LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the Leidenfrost effect in multiphase microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ULBruxelles with Benoit Scheid + secondment at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)
🔗 Read more: http://www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelanienews
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What happens when a droplet of liquid is squeezed into a channel so narrow it can barely move — and yet it levitates on a cushion of its own vapor? This is the kind of question driving the research of Mélanie Bulois (DC#10), who has just joined the LeidenForce project on October 1st. Her work will take the famous Leidenfrost effect — droplets hovering above a hot surface — into the intricate world of multiphase microfluidics, where confinement makes the physics even more intriguing. Read more
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