Tiny droplets, big potential.
Yale scientists studied 5,000 breakups to understand how droplets split under different conditions.
A step forward for microfluidics applications.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-03-precise-droplet.html
#Microfluidics #dropletphysics #softmatter #MicroReactors #drugdelivery
Building a better, more precise droplet
A humble droplet can be an immensely useful tool for a number of fields, from medicine to manufacturing. Controlling the size of the droplet, though, is an important—and very tricky—task. With unprecedented precision, a team of researchers determined how droplets break up into smaller ones, at what size, and under what conditions. The results of this study are published in Soft Matter.
Scientists are creating “animate” droplets that can act, adapt, and respond on their own, blurring the line between living and non-living matter.
Could this inspire new ways to control liquids?
🔗 https://physicsworld.com/a/droplet-scientists-push-the-boundary-between-living-and-non-living-matter/
#softmatter #ActiveMatter #dropletphysics #AutonomousSystems #fluiddynamics
Droplet scientists push the boundary between living and non-living matter – Physics World
Systems governed by chemistry and physics, not biology, can behave in surprisingly lifelike ways, as Giorgio Volpe, Rob Malinowski and Joe Forth explain
New high-speed videos show that side-by-side droplets in a fast airflow fragment in predictable ways: they form sacs, stretch into threads, or even merge depending on their spacing.
A phase diagram captures these transitions.
🔗 https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/5398-z2gf
#FluidDynamics #DropletPhysics #HighSpeedImaging #Atomization #SprayScience
Day 4 morning – last lectures at #LeidenForce Winter School: David Paulovics @utwente on impinging Leidenfrost jets, Alexis Duchesne from Université de Lille on levitated liquid tori & star-shaped drops. Experiments & curiosity!
#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidMechanics #PhysicsExperiments #LabLife
Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School afternoon:
Benoît Scheid @ULBruxelles on antibubbles & heat/mass transfer toward encapsulated Leidenfrost droplets.
Christian Diddens @utwente on sharp-interface finite element simulations for #Leidenfrost droplets.
#MultiphaseFlows #DropletPhysics #NumericalSimulation
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente :
Benjamin Sobac ( @cnrs – UPPA, LFCR) on Leidenfrost drops—> shape & levitation, dynamics, take-off vs explosion, and substrate effects.
#Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidDynamics
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente
Dominique Legendre (IMFT) on numerical modeling of moving contact lines, linking microscopic mechanisms to macroscopic spreading laws via CFD (VoF).
🔗 https://www.leidenforce.eu/partners
#Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #CFD #NumericalSimulation
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