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 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 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 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 Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025 | |
8:45am - 9:30am |
Plenary Speech by Suzie Protière Location: Room 604 Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium Freezing water and hydrogel drops |
9:30am - 10:15am |
Poster Pitches Session 2 Location: Room 604 Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium |
10:45am - 11:15am |
Keynote Speech by Tadd Truscott Location: Room 604 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 Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France Capillary Actuation and Tunable Drop Dynamics in a Helical Geometry Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway 11:30am - 11:45am Droplet Impact Onto Superhydrophobic Substrates Under High Pressure Chair of Thermodynamics, Technology University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany 11:45am - 12:00pm Dynamics of Fiber Motion in Impacting Fiber-Laden Droplets TU Darmstadt, Germany 12:00pm - 12:15pm 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 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 Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France Morphological Evolution of Impacting Droplets Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan 2:30pm - 2:45pm Rim Dynamics And Droplet Ejections Upon Drop Impact On Star-Shaped Poles 1: ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: University of Liège, Belgium 2:45pm - 3:00pm Raindrop Dynamics in Forest Canopies: Machine Learning and Rain Simulation Insights into Canopy Drip and Splash Throughfall 1: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2: University of Delaware, DE, USA; 3: Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan; 4: University of Miyazaki, Japan; 5: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan 3:00pm - 3:15pm Coalescence of Sessile and Pendent Droplets at Different Approach Speed 1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India; 2: Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Dharwad, Dharwad 580011, India; 3: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rond-point de l’´echangeur de Solaize, 69360 Solaize, France; 4: Institut 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 Chair: Dominique Legendre, Toulouse INP-IMFT, France Splash On A Liquid Pool: Coupled Cavity–Sheet Unsteady Dynamics MIT, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:15pm Drop Impact in a Cool Liquid Bath: What is Final Shape? 1: Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405, Orsay, France.; 2: Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France 4:15pm - 4:30pm The Interplay Of Impact Dynamics And Freezing Characteristics Of Water Droplets On A Superhydrophobic Surface 1: KU Leuven; 2: University of Ljubljana 4:30pm - 4:45pm Complex Morphology on the Underside of a Leidenfrost-levitated Hydrogel Sphere 1: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria; 2: Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3: TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom 4:45pm - 5:00pm 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 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 Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops |
10:00am - 10:45am |
Poster Pitches Session 3 Location: Room 604 Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium |
11:15am - 12:15pm |
Oral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics Location: Room 604 Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Discharge Dynamics Controls The Liquid-solid Contact Electrification Of A Bouncing Drop Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France 11:30am - 11:45am Slowly Decaying Surface Charges Cause Memory Effects in Dynamic Wetting 1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 3: University of Stuttgart, Germany 11:45am - 12:00pm Surface Charge Distribution Left Behind by Slipped and Evaporated Water Droplets Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany 12:00pm - 12:15pm 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 Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects
Satellite Formation in the Breakup of an Inviscid Ligament: Stretching and Asymmetric Effects 1: College of engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004 Jinhua, China; 2: TIPs - 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 Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France Electro-Marangoni Flows In Thin Liquid Films: When Microscopic Instabilities Drive Macroscopic Stability. ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2:30pm - 2:45pm Hemiwicking : Revisiting the Dynamic of Viscous Liquid in Elastic Pillar Arrays 1: Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France; 2: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Institut de Physique de Nice, 17 Rue Julien Lauprêtre, 06200 Nice, France; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France 2:45pm - 3:00pm Modelling Violent Droplet Impacts With A Micropillar Coated Surface 1: University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2: University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 3:00pm - 3:15pm Drop Behavior on Polygon Pillars 1: Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3:15pm - 3:30pm Thermally Activated Swelling and Wetting Transition of Frozen Polymer Brushes 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Münster: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster 3:30pm - 3:45pm The Effect of Nanoscale Topographic Roughness and Compositional Heterogeneity on Contact Line Friction 1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 3:45pm - 4:00pm Wetting And Spreading In Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces Aalto University, Finland |