Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme
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Session Overview | |
Location: Room 604 |
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025 | |
9:30am - 9:45am | Opening 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 - 10:30am | Plenary 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 - 11:15am | Plenary 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 - 12:00pm | Poster Pitches Session 1 Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Keynote 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 - 3:30pm | Oral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The |
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2:00pm - 2:15pm
ID: 100 / Oral Session 1: 1 Dancing Droplets: The Physics of Post-impact Retraction Dynamics 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 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 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 ! Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH), France 3:00pm - 3:15pm
ID: 280 / Oral Session 1: 5 Hot liquid marbles 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 1PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France; 2Princeton University, NJ, USA; 3LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, France |
4:00pm - 6:00pm | Oral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France |
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4:00pm - 4:15pm
ID: 408 / Oral Session 4: 1 Self-Accelerating Drops on Sustainable Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland 4:15pm - 4:30pm
ID: 300 / Oral Session 4: 2 Static Friction of Liquid Marbles 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 1espci paris, France; 2ecole polytechnique 4:45pm - 5:00pm
ID: 154 / Oral Session 4: 4 Orbiting Droplets on a Soap Film. 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 Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT°, France 5:15pm - 5:30pm
ID: 422 / Oral Session 4: 6 Swimming Droplets Facing Adversity 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 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. 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 - 9:30am | Plenary Speech by Suzie Protière Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium Freezing water and hydrogel drops |
9:30am - 10:15am | Poster Pitches Session 2 Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium |
10:45am - 11:15am | Keynote Speech by Tadd Truscott Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup |
11:15am - 12:15pm | Oral Session 7 | Impacts I Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France |
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11:15am - 11:30am
ID: 407 / Oral Session 7: 1 Capillary Actuation and Tunable Drop Dynamics in a Helical Geometry 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 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 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 University of Twente, Netherlands, The |
1:45pm - 2:15pm | Keynote 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 - 3:15pm | Oral Session 10 | Coalescence & Break-up II Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France |
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2:15pm - 2:30pm
ID: 371 / Oral Session 10: 1 Morphological Evolution of Impacting Droplets Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence 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 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 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 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 - 5:00pm | Oral Session 13 | Impacts II Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Dominique Legendre, Toulouse INP-IMFT, France |
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3:45pm - 4:00pm
ID: 410 / Oral Session 13: 1 Splash On A Liquid Pool: Coupled Cavity–Sheet Unsteady Dynamics 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? 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 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 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 PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France |
Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:15am | Plenary 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 - 10:00am | Plenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops |
10:00am - 10:45am | Poster Pitches Session 3 Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium |
11:15am - 12:15pm | Oral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics Location: Room 604 Session Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain |
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11:15am - 11:30am
ID: 181 / Oral Session 16: 1 Discharge Dynamics Controls The Liquid-solid Contact Electrification Of A Bouncing Drop 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 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 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 iit delhi, India |
1:45pm - 2:15pm | Keynote Speech by Wei Xiaofeng Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects |
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ID: 183
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Satellite Formation in the Breakup of an Inviscid Ligament: Stretching and Asymmetric Effects 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 - 4:00pm | Oral Session 19 | Wetting IV Location: Room 604 Session Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France |
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2:15pm - 2:30pm
ID: 401 / Oral Session 19: 1 Electro-Marangoni Flows In Thin Liquid Films: When Microscopic Instabilities Drive Macroscopic Stability. ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2:30pm - 2:45pm
ID: 345 / Oral Session 19: 2 Hemiwicking : Revisiting the Dynamic of Viscous Liquid in Elastic Pillar Arrays 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 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 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 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 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 Aalto University, Finland |