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| Leidenfrost Effect | Horizon Europe |
| Physics | MSCA |
| Droplets | Experiment |
| Research | PhD |
On #WomenInScience day, we welcome Lorena Victoria García to #LeidenForce.
Her PhD explores if an electric field can locally switch off the #LeidenfrostEffect.
Supervised by Anne-Laure Biance at @cnrs & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), with a secondment at CRM Group (Belgium).
📌 To (re)live the #LeidenForce #WinterSchool 2026 (lectures, PhD talks, photos, and highlights from the week), read full article here → https://www.LeidenForce.eu/postwinterschool2026
📷 NTNU - @utwente - FNRS - @UniversitedeLiege - @ULBruxelles - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - @cnrs - IMFT - Saint-Gobain Research Paris - ISTA - ESPCI
#LeidenfrostEffect #FluidDynamics #HorizonEurope #PhD #Research
A droplet placed on a scorching surface might seem doomed to vanish instantly. Yet under certain conditions, it does the opposite: it levitates on its own vapor layer, moves with surprising mobility, and reveals a physics both elegant and complex. This is the essence of the Leidenfrost effect, spectacular, but crucial for many industrial processes, from cooling to cryogenic storage. Centered on this phenomenon, the LeidenForce Winter School 2026... Read more
- Capillary number: balancing viscosity and surface tension -
The capillary number quantifies how viscosity and surface tension interact in droplets. Explore this key concept in the ESPCI Paris - PSL MOOC video.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbEOcd977ec&list=PLcbz7zf4dTyk9BqlBPLpgI48i9TiorpEi&index=12
#CapillaryNumber #Viscosity #SurfaceTension #FluidPhysics #LeidenfrostEffect
🎳 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 4 and final day of the #LeidenForce Winter School starts under the snow ❄️
Resort Bad Boekelo turned into a winter postcard.
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.
