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?
#softmatter #ActiveMatter #dropletphysics #AutonomousSystems #fluiddynamics
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.
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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