Water droplet impact on surfaces is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and industry, where the time of contact between droplet and surface influences the transfer of mass, momentum and energy. To manipulate and reduce the contact time of impacting droplets, previous publications report tailoring of surface microstructures that influence the droplet - surface interface. Here we show that surface ...

The transient response of a millimeter-sized sessile droplet under electrical actuation is experimentally investigated. Under DC actuation, the droplet spreading rate increases as the applied voltage is increased due to the higher electrical forces induced. At sufficiently high DC voltages, competition between the electrical actuation force, droplet inertia, the retarding surface tension force ...

Deformation of a rotating two-lobed liquid droplet was simulated numerically by solving the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations using the level set method. The two-lobed droplet was formed by rotating a spherical droplet; the droplet changed its shape from the sphere to the rotating ellipsoid, and to the two-lobed shape. It was found that the time histories of the deformation of two-lobed...

Irregularities in the perimeter of a water droplet adhering to a vertical pane of glass cause perturbations in the curvature of the droplet surface. When laser light passes through such a droplet, the perturbations produce a far field refraction caustic, which is a section of the caustic known as the parabolic umbilic in the catastrophe theory classification. As the water evaporates and the dro...

This project will develop cloud droplet probes and phase-Doppler anemometry for measuring sizesegregated droplet concentrations at high wind speeds in the ABL. The data will be used for investigating droplet dynamics in the marine atmospheric boundary layer, characterizing the droplet surface flux source function, and determining the effect spray drops have on air-water surface exchange process...

This paper focuses on molten aluminum and aluminum alloy droplet generation for application to net-form manufacturing of structural components. The mechanism of droplet formation from capillary stream break-up provides the allure for use in net-form manufacturing due to the intrinsic uniformity of droplets generated under proper forcing conditions and the high rates at which they are generated....

The antibacterial effect of a nanostructured film, known as "moth-eye film," was investigated. The moth-eye film has artificially formed nano-pillars, consisting of hydrophilic resin with urethane acrylate and polyethylene glycol (PEG) derivatives, all over its surface that replicates a moth's eye. Experiments were performed to compare the moth-eye film with a flat-surfaced film produced from t...

In this paper, we got femtoliter volume droplet by splitting of nanoliter droplet at a T-junction channel, and the volume of the daughter droplet was not limited by the channel size. We use this droplet splitting system to entrap several fluorescent nanospheres, which show great potential to manipulate and observe single nanoparticles independently. The influences of fluid flow rate, channel ge...

In organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) manufacturing, inkjet printing has rapidly become popular due to its high resolution and low cost. However, the mechanism of droplet impacting on a rectangular pixel in OLEDs is not yet clear. this paper, coalescence dynamics including spread retraction stages simulated by software fluent. addition, dynamic model proposed analyze behavior pixel. stage, e...

Particles adsorbed on the surface of a droplet form three-dimensional packings when the droplet evaporates. We study the final packings when the liquid droplet is attached to a solid substrate. In contrast to a droplet evaporating away from a substrate, here the final packings are highly dependent on both the number of particles and the contact angle between the droplet and the surface. Simple ...