Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

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Session Overview
Location: Room 604
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
9:30am - 9:45amOpening Speech
Location: Room 604
Session 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
9:45am - 10:30amPlenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough?
10:30am - 11:15amPlenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications
11:15am - 12:00pmPoster Pitches Session 1
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
1:30pm - 2:00pmKeynote Speech by Dominique Legendre
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation
2:00pm - 3:30pmOral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm
ID: 100 / Oral Session 1: 1

Dancing Droplets: The Physics of Post-impact Retraction Dynamics

Aman Bhargava1, Doris Vollmer2, Detlef Lohse1, Vatsal Sanjay1

1Physics of Fluids group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 2Max Planck Insitute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany



2:15pm - 2:30pm
ID: 194 / Oral Session 1: 2

Dual Role Of Local Contact Angles In Spontaneous Drop Motion On Gradient Surfaces

Frieder Mugele, Sander Reuvekamp, Sissi de Beer

Univ. Twente, Netherlands, The



2:30pm - 2:45pm
ID: 199 / Oral Session 1: 3

Chemo-mechanical Coupling In Sessile Drops Covered By Reactive Surfactants - From Simple Self-propulsion To Chaotic Motion

Florian Voss1, Uwe Thiele1,2

1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Germany; 2Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS), University of Münster, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm
ID: 208 / Oral Session 1: 4

Fast and viscous !

Auriane Huyghues Despointes, David Quéré

Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH), France



3:00pm - 3:15pm
ID: 280 / Oral Session 1: 5

Hot liquid marbles

Pritam Kumar Roy1, Yui Takai1, Rui Matsubara1, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi2, Timothée Mouterde1

1The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan



3:15pm - 3:30pm
ID: 400 / Oral Session 1: 6

Impact of Shear-Thickening Capsules

Philippe Bourrianne1,2, Etienne Jambon-Puillet2,3, Howard A. Stone2, Pierre-Thomas Brun2

1PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France; 2Princeton University, NJ, USA; 3LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, France

 
4:00pm - 6:00pmOral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm
ID: 408 / Oral Session 4: 1

Self-Accelerating Drops on Sustainable Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces

William Wong, Maja Vuckovac

Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland



4:15pm - 4:30pm
ID: 300 / Oral Session 4: 2

Static Friction of Liquid Marbles

Kei Mukoyama1, Yui Takai1, Pritam Kumar Roy1, Guillaume Lagubeau2, David Quéré3, Samuel Poincloux4, Timothée Mouterde1

1The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2Université de Lille; 3ESPCI Paris; 4Aoyama Gakuin University



4:30pm - 4:45pm
ID: 186 / Oral Session 4: 3

Bouncing of Liquid Drops on a Soft Solid

Kexin Zhao1,2, David Quere1,2

1espci paris, France; 2ecole polytechnique



4:45pm - 5:00pm
ID: 154 / Oral Session 4: 4

Orbiting Droplets on a Soap Film.

Jean Paul Martischang1, Benjamin Reichert1, Alexis Duchesne1, Germain Rousseaux2, Michaël Baudoin1,3

1Univ. Lille, UMR 8520 - IEMN- Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France; 2Institut Pprime (UPR 3346), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ISAE ENSMA, Poitiers, France; 3Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France



5:00pm - 5:15pm
ID: 179 / Oral Session 4: 5

Caterpillar Like Motion of a Droplet in a Shear Flow

Julien Sebilleau, Antonio Chahine, Romain Mathis, Dominique Legendre

Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT°, France



5:15pm - 5:30pm
ID: 422 / Oral Session 4: 6

Swimming Droplets Facing Adversity

Mathilde Reyssat1, Léo-Paul Barbier1, Maitane Muñoz-Basagoiti2

1Gulliver Lab., ESPCI Paris, France; 2ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria



5:30pm - 5:45pm
ID: 306 / Oral Session 4: 7

Bursting Soap Film : Origin of the Flapping Flag Instability

Alexandre Guillemot1, Juliette Pierre1, Adrien Bussonnière2

1Institut d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université, UMR 7190, 75005 Paris, France; 2Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Cité, UMR 7057, 75013, Paris, France



5:45pm - 6:00pm
ID: 308 / Oral Session 4: 8

Development of a Droplet-Based Millifluidic Reactor for Continuous Synthesis of Bio-Based Styrenes.

Firas Ghali1, Hassan El Itawi1, Aya Zoghlami1, Benjamin Lalanne2, Patrick Perré1

1Université 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.; 2Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INP, UPS, Toulouse, France.

 
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
8:45am - 9:30amPlenary Speech by Suzie Protière
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Freezing water and hydrogel drops
9:30am - 10:15amPoster Pitches Session 2
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
10:45am - 11:15amKeynote Speech by Tadd Truscott
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 7 | Impacts I
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
 
11:15am - 11:30am
ID: 407 / Oral Session 7: 1

Capillary Actuation and Tunable Drop Dynamics in a Helical Geometry

Bidisha Bhatt, Andreas Carlson

Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway



11:30am - 11:45am
ID: 133 / Oral Session 7: 2

Droplet Impact Onto Superhydrophobic Substrates Under High Pressure

Yan Yan, Muhammad Amjad, Xiaolong Ma, Dongsheng Wen

Chair of Thermodynamics, Technology University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany



11:45am - 12:00pm
ID: 171 / Oral Session 7: 3

Dynamics of Fiber Motion in Impacting Fiber-Laden Droplets

Lisa Sophie Bauer, Steffen Hardt

TU Darmstadt, Germany



12:00pm - 12:15pm
ID: 174 / Oral Session 7: 4

Unifying Theory Of Scaling In Drop Impact: Forces And Maximum Spreading Diameter

Detlef Lohse, Vatsal Sanjay

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

 
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Jose Manuel Gordillo
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
From drop splashing to Worthington jets
2:15pm - 3:15pmOral Session 10 | Coalescence & Break-up II
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm
ID: 371 / Oral Session 10: 1

Morphological Evolution of Impacting Droplets Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Yoshiyuki Tagawa, Jingzu Yee, Shunsuke Kumagai, Daichi Igarashi, Pradipto Pradipto, Akinori Yamanaka

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan



2:30pm - 2:45pm
ID: 185 / Oral Session 10: 2

Rim Dynamics And Droplet Ejections Upon Drop Impact On Star-Shaped Poles

Tobias Bauer1, Tristan Gilet2

1ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2University of Liège, Belgium



2:45pm - 3:00pm
ID: 337 / Oral Session 10: 3

Raindrop Dynamics in Forest Canopies: Machine Learning and Rain Simulation Insights into Canopy Drip and Splash Throughfall

Kazuki Nanko1, Delphis F. Levia2, Shin'ichi Iida3, Yoshinori Shinohara4, Naoki Sakai5

1Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2University of Delaware, DE, USA; 3Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan; 4University of Miyazaki, Japan; 5National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan



3:00pm - 3:15pm
ID: 298 / Oral Session 10: 4

Coalescence of Sessile and Pendent Droplets at Different Approach Speed

Raghvendra Dwivedi1, Hiranya Deka2, Jean-Lou Pierson3, Jacques Magnaudet4, Susmita Dash1

1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India; 2Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Dharwad, Dharwad 580011, India; 3IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rond-point de l’´echangeur de Solaize, 69360 Solaize, France; 4Institut de M´ecanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Universit´e de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France

 
3:45pm - 5:00pmOral Session 13 | Impacts II
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Dominique Legendre, Toulouse INP-IMFT, France
 
3:45pm - 4:00pm
ID: 410 / Oral Session 13: 1

Splash On A Liquid Pool: Coupled Cavity–Sheet Unsteady Dynamics

N Shen, R Dandekar, B Naar, L Bourouiba

MIT, United States of America



4:00pm - 4:15pm
ID: 129 / Oral Session 13: 2

Drop Impact in a Cool Liquid Bath: What is Final Shape?

Marion Berry1, Christophe Josserand2, Anniina Salonen3, François Boulogne1

1Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405, Orsay, France.; 2Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.; 3Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France



4:15pm - 4:30pm
ID: 163 / Oral Session 13: 3

The Interplay Of Impact Dynamics And Freezing Characteristics Of Water Droplets On A Superhydrophobic Surface

Yuheng Shang1, Matic Moze2, Sylvie Castagne1, David Seveno1, Maria Rosaria Vetrano1

1KU Leuven; 2University of Ljubljana



4:30pm - 4:45pm
ID: 302 / Oral Session 13: 4

Complex Morphology on the Underside of a Leidenfrost-levitated Hydrogel Sphere

Vicente Luis Diaz-Melian1, Isaac Lento1, Jack Binysh2, Anton Souslov3, Scott Waitukaitis1

1Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria; 2Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom



4:45pm - 5:00pm
ID: 175 / Oral Session 13: 5

Levitating Fizzy Droplets

Hugo Delrieu, Laurent Duchemin, David Quéré, Philippe Bourrianne

PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France

 
Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
8:30am - 9:15amPlenary Speech by Petia M. Vlahovska
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
Dynamics of complex interfaces: biomimetic membranes, charged droplets, and active fluids
9:15am - 10:00amPlenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops
10:00am - 10:45amPoster Pitches Session 3
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
 
11:15am - 11:30am
ID: 181 / Oral Session 16: 1

Discharge Dynamics Controls The Liquid-solid Contact Electrification Of A Bouncing Drop

Rachel Piednoir, Anne-Laure Biance, Catherine Barentin

Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France



11:30am - 11:45am
ID: 334 / Oral Session 16: 2

Slowly Decaying Surface Charges Cause Memory Effects in Dynamic Wetting

Aaron D. Ratschow1,2, Pravash Bista1, Hans-Jürgen Butt1, Stefan A. L. Weber1,3

1Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; 2Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 3University of Stuttgart, Germany



11:45am - 12:00pm
ID: 368 / Oral Session 16: 3

Surface Charge Distribution Left Behind by Slipped and Evaporated Water Droplets

Nikolaus Knorr, Rüdiger Berger, Hnas-Jürgen Butt

Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany



12:00pm - 12:15pm
ID: 265 / Oral Session 16: 4

Solid-liquid based Energy Generation on Electret CYTOP Surface with High Power Density

Shalini Shalini

iit delhi, India

 
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Wei Xiaofeng
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France
Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects
 
ID: 183 / Keynote 10: 1

Satellite Formation in the Breakup of an Inviscid Ligament: Stretching and Asymmetric Effects

Xiaofeng Wei1, Jinshun Gao1, Dongyun Wang1, Benoit Scheid2

1College of engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004 Jinhua, China; 2TIPs - Fluid Physics Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/67, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

 
2:15pm - 4:00pmOral Session 19 | Wetting IV
Location: Room 604
Session Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm
ID: 401 / Oral Session 19: 1

Electro-Marangoni Flows In Thin Liquid Films: When Microscopic Instabilities Drive Macroscopic Stability.

Lucas Bidoire, Nino Zosso, Jan Vermant

ETH Zurich, Switzerland



2:30pm - 2:45pm
ID: 345 / Oral Session 19: 2

Hemiwicking : Revisiting the Dynamic of Viscous Liquid in Elastic Pillar Arrays

Jérôme Fresnais1, Sarra Nouma1, Céline Cohen2, Xavier Noblin2, Etienne Barthel3

1Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France; 2Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Institut de Physique de Nice, 17 Rue Julien Lauprêtre, 06200 Nice, France; 3Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France



2:45pm - 3:00pm
ID: 356 / Oral Session 19: 3

Modelling Violent Droplet Impacts With A Micropillar Coated Surface

Peter Daniel Hicks1, Richard Purvis2

1University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2University of East Anglia, United Kingdom



3:00pm - 3:15pm
ID: 198 / Oral Session 19: 4

Drop Behavior on Polygon Pillars

Maria Tadmor1, Ron Arogeti2, Appu Vinod3, Victor Multanen1,3, Merav Arogeti1

1Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel; 2The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel



3:15pm - 3:30pm
ID: 232 / Oral Session 19: 5

Thermally Activated Swelling and Wetting Transition of Frozen Polymer Brushes

Luciana Buonaiuto1, Sander Reuvekamp1, Billura Shakhayeva2, Enqing Liu1, Franziska Neuhaus2, Björn Braunschweig2, Sissi de Beer1, Frieder Mugele1

1University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2University of Münster: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster



3:30pm - 3:45pm
ID: 238 / Oral Session 19: 6

The Effect of Nanoscale Topographic Roughness and Compositional Heterogeneity on Contact Line Friction

Michele Pellegrino1,2, Fabiano Tarulli1, Mokhtar G. Koli1, Berk Hess2, Matteo Fasano1

1Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden



3:45pm - 4:00pm
ID: 350 / Oral Session 19: 7

Wetting And Spreading In Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran

Aalto University, Finland