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
#Leidenfrost #DropletDynamics #HeatTransfer #FluidDynamics #NumericalSimulation
🎉 #LeidenForce turns one!
Yesterday, we celebrated our first anniversary.
To mark the occasion, we are sharing a video introducing the Doctoral Candidates who drive the project forward. This teaser marks the beginning of a series of interviews.
▶️ Discover the faces behind LeidenForce – #Trueforce: https://youtu.be/VAdR3VmmpkU?si=pcBFLCoKMl1xOdYD
ULB | @utwente | ISTA | @UniversitedeLiege de Liège | ULille | NTNU | UCBL | UPPA | ESPCI
#MSCA #HorizonEurope #DoctoralNetwork #Leidenfrost #Research #Science #PhD
🎳 Bowling break at the #LeidenForce Winter School! PhD students, postdocs, speakers & the team had fun.
💡 Can you guess the participants behind these team names… or spot the winners?
Hint: they’re pairs! 🏆
#LeidenForce #WinterSchool #Leidenfrost #TeamSpirit #LabLife #ScienceFun
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 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon ISTA – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc, @ULBruxelles TIPS Lab), Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan (@ULBruxelles TIPS Lab) shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.
#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics
PhD talks at #LeidenForce Winter School (Days 2–3):
Apurav Tambe (Univ. of Waterloo), Gauri Patki @UniversitedeLiege & Université de Lille), Pablo Gil Gonzalez & Mélanie Bulois @ULBruxelles, Cheikh Tidiane Dioum (Univ. of Liège), Tristan Simon @cnrs Saint-Gobain.
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.
Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School morning:
Maria Fernandino (NTNU) on modeling approaches for evaporation & the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg framework.
Jacco Snoeijer @utwente on lubrication, Landau–Levich theory & #Leidenfrost physics.
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente :
Benjamin Sobac ( @cnrs – UPPA, LFCR) on Leidenfrost drops—> shape & levitation, dynamics, take-off vs explosion, and substrate effects.
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).
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