Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme
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Session Overview |
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025 | |||
8:00am - 9:30am |
Registration & Welcome coffee Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
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9:30am - 9:45am |
Opening Speech Location: Room 604 Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium Opening speech by the Conference Chairs — Prof. Stéphane Dorbolo (ULiège), Prof. Tristan Gilet (ULiège), and Prof. Benoit Scheid (ULB) — followed by a welcome address from Prof. Pierre Duysinx, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Mobility at ULiège |
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9:45am - 10:30am |
Plenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux Location: Room 604 Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough? |
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10:30am - 11:15am |
Plenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich Location: Room 604 Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications |
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11:15am - 12:00pm |
Poster Pitches Session 1 Location: Room 604 Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
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12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
Poster Session 1 Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53 Movement Of A Droplet Pinned On Both Sides Of A Plane Horizontal Channel Subjected To An Air Flow – An Experimental And Numerical Study University Wuppertal, Germany Observation of Surface Modulation on Free-Flying Liquid Metal Sheets 1: Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL), Science Park 106, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: LaserLab, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Exploring Droplet Impact of Emulsions on Smooth and Microstructured Surfaces 1: Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.; 2: Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Evaporation of Sessile Drops on Patterned Surfaces 1: ThAMeS Multiphase, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, 5 London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom; 2: School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, 10 Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA; 3: Innospec Ltd., Oil Sites Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 4EY, United Kingdom Bubbles and Droplets Produced by Capillary Rise POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania Surfactants Screen Slide Electrification ETH Zurich, Switzerland Partial Wetting Of A Liquid On A Solid Under The Influence Of A Gravitational Field Aix Marseille Université, France Complex Solid Structures in Slowly Evaporating Confined Colloidal Drops 1: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; 2: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; 3: University of Cambridge, UK Softness Effect of pNIPAM Microgels on Pickering Emulsions: Drop Deformation and Elasticity 1: Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; 2: Biomacromolecular Systems and Processes (IBI-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany; 3: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; 4: Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Cases in Which the Work of Adhesion Can be Determined 1: Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel; 2: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Mesoscale Study On Dense Emulsions: From Short-range Interaction To Effective Viscosity 1: The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Investigation of Superspreading Wetting of Nanofluid Droplets: Time-resolved 2D Measurement of Film Thickness and Nanoparticle Concentration Tohoku University, Japan Different Storing Temperatures and Durations Greatly Impact Serum and Plasma Patterns From Dried Droplets: A Pilot Study 1: University of Bern, Switzerland; 2: Society for Cancer Research, Switzerland; 3: Inselspital, Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland Stability Of Inkjet Printing Lines At An Inclined Surface Beihang University, China, People's Republic of Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Droplet’s Spreading 1: Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus; 2: Department of Physics & INFN, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 3: LTCI, Télécom Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France; 4: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; 5: Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR Naples, Italy; 6: INRIA & École Polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France Droplet Grouping and Coalescence in a Stream of Droplets in the Presence of Acoustics 1: Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR), University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (deemed to be University), UP, India; 3: Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; 4: Aerospace Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Selecting Fluorosurfactants for Droplet-Based Microfluidics Institut Charles Sadron (UPR CNRS 22), University of Strasbourg, 67037 Strasbourg, France Computational Investigation of the Three-phase Interaction of Dispersed Oil Droplets and Rising Air Bubbles in Water KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Spontaneous Charge Separation by Drop Motion Across of a Hydrophobic Tube 1: The University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Self-similar Aspects of Droplet Aerobreakup Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India Removal Of Spherical Particles From Hydrophobic Surfaces By Single Water Drops Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Breakdown Of Heterogeneous Wetting Under Increased Droplet Pressure University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Direct Numerical Simulation of Evaporating Droplet Populations 1: Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 2: School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 3: Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 4: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, Univesity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Droplet Repellency And Ice Adhesion Reduction On Superhydrophobic Laser-Textured Surfaces: The Effect Of Feature Depth And Spacing 1: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia; 2: KU Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TME Division, Belgium Viscous Pancakes: Short Contact Times During Impacts Of Viscous Droplets Onto Hierarchical Micropillar Surfaces University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia Lateral Adhesion Of Droplets Measured With The Scanning Drop Friction Force Instrument 1: Max-Planck-Institut für Polymeforschung, Germany; 2: KRÜSS GmbH Drop Impact in a Spherical Splash-Cup 1: Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France; 2: Microfluidics Lab, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Impact Dynamics of Microemulsion Droplets on Heated Substrate Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India Numerical Modelling of Surfactant Laden Droplet with Contact Angle Hysteresis and Solid Adsoprtion KTH Royal Institue of Technology, Sweden Drop Coalescence Inhibition By Curvature Elasticity in Nanoemulsion Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Wettability Of Non-Wettable Particles 1: Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; 2: Department of Materials and Chemistry (MACH), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), B-1050 Brussels, Belgium; 3: Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway Breakage Of Buoyant Drops Using Wedge Shaped Inserts Indian Institute of Science, India Jumping Condensation On Microconical Surfaces Aalto University, Finland Analysis Of Heat Transfer In Impinging Water Droplets Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Modelling the Flow Dynamics of Freezing Water Droplets Lulea university of technology, Sweden The Competition Between Coalescence and Evaporation of Microdrops 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Canon Production Printing Netherlands B.V. Role of Solvent Mediation and Hierarchical Texturing on the Wettability, Stability and Reversibility of Hydrated Phase Change Materials Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Keynote Speech by Dominique Legendre Location: Room 604 Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation |
Keynote Speech by Djamel Lakehal Location: Room 304 Chair: Elise Lorenceau, CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes, France Computational droplet dynamics and heat transfer: from microfluidics and MedTech applications to large-scale energy systems |
Keynote Speech by Catherine Barentin Location: Room 204 Chair: David John Fairhurst, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Wetting of complex fluids |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Oral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I Location: Room 604 Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The Dancing Droplets: The Physics of Post-impact Retraction Dynamics 1: Physics of Fluids group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Max Planck Insitute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany 2:15pm - 2:30pm Dual Role Of Local Contact Angles In Spontaneous Drop Motion On Gradient Surfaces Univ. Twente, Netherlands, The 2:30pm - 2:45pm Chemo-mechanical Coupling In Sessile Drops Covered By Reactive Surfactants - From Simple Self-propulsion To Chaotic Motion 1: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Germany; 2: Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS), University of Münster, Germany 2:45pm - 3:00pm Fast and viscous ! Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH), France 3:00pm - 3:15pm Hot liquid marbles 1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 3:15pm - 3:30pm Impact of Shear-Thickening Capsules 1: PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France; 2: Princeton University, NJ, USA; 3: LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, France |
Oral Session 2 | Leidenfrost Location: Room 304 Chair: Elise Lorenceau, CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes, France Bouncing of a Leidenfrost Jet 1: Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice, 06200 Nice, France; 2: Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 75005 Paris, France 2:15pm - 2:30pm Dynamics of small Leidenfrost droplets 1: LFCR lab, CNRS - UPPA, France; 2: TIPs lab, ULB, Belgium 2:30pm - 2:45pm Leidenfrost whistle 1: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: Edinburgh University, United Kingdom 2:45pm - 3:00pm Leidenfrost Levitation of a Droplet Above a Thin Liquid Film PMMH/ESPCI, France 3:00pm - 3:15pm Metastable Vapor Layer At Surface Temperatures Below The Leidenfrost Point 1: Kogakuin University, Japan; 2: Tokyo University of Science, Japan; 3: King's College London, United Kingdom 3:15pm - 3:30pm Settling and Floating of a Water Drop Over an Oil-Water Interface in a Horizontal Linear Shear Flow 1: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France; 2: TotalEnergies, Pôle d’Etudes et de Recherche de Lacq (PERL), Lacq, France |
Oral Session 3 | Emulsions Location: Room 204 Chair: David John Fairhurst, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Understanding the Stability of Pickering Emulsions Using On-Chip Microfluidics Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, The 2:15pm - 2:30pm Droplet Deformation Under Extensional Flow in the Presence of Surfactants 1: Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405 Orsay, France; 2: Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINaM, Marseille, France; 3: Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Med, M2P2, Marseille, France 2:30pm - 2:45pm Evaporation Induced Destabilization of Oil-in-Water Emulsion KU Leuven, Belgium 2:45pm - 3:00pm Topology-Controlled Interfacial Patterns on Liquid Emulsion Droplets Bar-Ilan University, Israel 3:00pm - 3:15pm Fluid Flow in Interacting Binary 1D Droplets Arrays 1: Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Edinburgh 3:15pm - 3:30pm Rise And Fall Of A Multicomponent Droplet In A Surrounding Fluid: Simulation Study Of A Bumpy Path 1: Laboratoire PMC, CNRS, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France; 2: CEA, DES, IRESNE, DTN, St Paul-Lez-Durance, France |
3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
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4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Oral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II Location: Room 604 Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France Self-Accelerating Drops on Sustainable Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland 4:15pm - 4:30pm Static Friction of Liquid Marbles 1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Université de Lille; 3: ESPCI Paris; 4: Aoyama Gakuin University 4:30pm - 4:45pm Bouncing of Liquid Drops on a Soft Solid 1: espci paris, France; 2: ecole polytechnique 4:45pm - 5:00pm Orbiting Droplets on a Soap Film. 1: Univ. Lille, UMR 8520 - IEMN- Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France; 2: Institut Pprime (UPR 3346), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ISAE ENSMA, Poitiers, France; 3: Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France 5:00pm - 5:15pm Caterpillar Like Motion of a Droplet in a Shear Flow Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT°, France 5:15pm - 5:30pm Swimming Droplets Facing Adversity 1: Gulliver Lab., ESPCI Paris, France; 2: ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria 5:30pm - 5:45pm Bursting Soap Film : Origin of the Flapping Flag Instability 1: Institut d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université, UMR 7190, 75005 Paris, France; 2: Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Cité, UMR 7057, 75013, Paris, France 5:45pm - 6:00pm Development of a Droplet-Based Millifluidic Reactor for Continuous Synthesis of Bio-Based Styrenes. 1: Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux, Centre Européen de Biotechnologie et de Bioéconomie (CEBB), 3 rue des Rouges Terres, Pomacle 51110, France.; 2: Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INP, UPS, Toulouse, France. |
Oral Session 5 | Wetting I Location: Room 304 Chair: Burak Eral, TU Delft, Netherlands, The Super Spreading Of Solidifying Wax Droplets On A Liquid Substrate 1: Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, UMR 8502, France; 2: Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646, France; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, France 4:15pm - 4:30pm FT-IR Analysis Of Aerosols In Microgravity 1: Aix-Marseille university, France; 2: 2LP ENS-Paris, France; 3: CNRS–ICARE, University Orléans, France 4:30pm - 4:45pm Purely-Dissolutive Wetting Behaviours in Metallic Systems: a Combined Experimental and Numerical Approach 1: Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China; 2: Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; 3: Chongqing Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Technologies of Clean Energies, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China 4:45pm - 5:00pm Spreading Of Graphene Oxide Suspension Droplets On Smooth Surfaces 1: School of Physics, AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 2: School of Science, Atlantic Technological University Galway, Ireland 5:00pm - 5:15pm Understanding Cu/W Wettability to Enable Liquid Metal Infiltration for Advanced Composites KU Leuven, Belgium 5:15pm - 5:30pm Wetting Dynamics of Initially Pure Alcoholic Sessile Droplets in Humid Conditions 1: Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: Flanders Make, Kortrijk, Belgium 5:30pm - 5:45pm Droplet Deposition on Ice: Does Water Wet Its Own Solid? 1: Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France; 2: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR CNRS 7057, Université Paris Cité, 75013 Paris, France; 3: Institut Franco-Argentin de Dynamique des Fluides pour l’Environnement, IRL 2027, CNRS, UBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentine 5:45pm - 6:00pm Friction Force Between Water Droplets And Micro-overhang Structures University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
Oral Session 6 | Coalescence & Break-up I Location: Room 204 Chair: Suzie Protiere, CNRS - Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, France The Crossover Between Inertial and Viscous Regimes in Drop Coalescence Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 4:15pm - 4:30pm Dynamics Of Droplet Coalescence In Microgravity 1: National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania; 2: Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; 3: Romanian InSpace Engineering S.R.L., Magurele, Romania; 4: European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands; 5: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 4:30pm - 4:45pm Interfacial Dripping Faucet: Generating Monodisperse Liquid Lenses 1: Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Spain; 2: Instituto Gregorio Millán, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Spain; 3: Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France; 4: Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, The Netherlands 4:45pm - 5:00pm Fragmentation Of A Droplet On A Fibre By A Wind Gust 1: Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France; 2: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble-INP, LEGI, 38000 Grenoble, France 5:00pm - 5:15pm Holey Sheets: How Do Droplets Undergo Bag Breakup? 1: Physics of Fluids Group, Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, and J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, Netherlands; 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA; 3: Sorbonne Université and CNRS, UMR 7190, Institut Jean Le Rond ∂ ’Alembert, 75005 Paris, France; 4: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 5:15pm - 5:30pm When Droplets Transport Algae Institut d'Alembert - CNRS - SU, France 5:30pm - 5:45pm Logic Circuits in Open Microfluidics Tel Aviv University, Israel 5:45pm - 6:00pm Levitating Droplet on a Moving Surface: Measurement and Scaling of the Air Film Thickness 1: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France |
6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Welcome Reception Location: B4 outside place (level -1) |