Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

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Session Overview
Location: Room 304
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
1:30pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Speech by Djamel Lakehal
Location: Room 304
Computational droplet dynamics and heat transfer: from microfluidics and MedTech applications to large-scale energy systems
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Oral Session 2
Location: Room 304
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Bouncing of a Leidenfrost Jet

David Paulovics1, Thomas Frisch1, Christophe Raufaste1,2, Franck Celestini1

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

Benjamin Sobac1, Alexey Rednikov2, Pierre Colinet2

1: LFCR lab, CNRS - UPPA, France; 2: TIPs lab, ULB, Belgium



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Leidenfrost whistle

Prashant Agrawal1, Ansu Sun1, Bethan Ford1, Gary Wells2, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar2, Glen McHale2

1: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: Edinburgh University, United Kingdom



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Leidenfrost Levitation of a Droplet Above a Thin Liquid Film

Laurent Duchemin, Christophe Josserand

PMMH/ESPCI, France



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Metastable Vapor Layer At Surface Temperatures Below The Leidenfrost Point

Ken Yamamoto1, Keigo Katayama2, Yutaku Kita3

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

Pengyu Shi1, Hanane Atmani1, Athanasios Boutsikakis1, Roel Belt2, Dominique Legendre1

1: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France; 2: TotalEnergies, Pôle d’Etudes et de Recherche de Lacq (PERL), Lacq, France

4:00pm
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6:00pm
Oral Session 5
Location: Room 304
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Super Spreading Of Solidifying Wax Droplets On A Liquid Substrate

Marion Berry1, Christophe Josserand2, Anniina Salonen3, François Boulogne1

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

The Role of the Diffusive Boundary Layer in Physically Realistic Models of Deposition from Sessile Droplets

Alexander William Wray1, Hannah-May D'Ambrosio2, Madeleine Moore3

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Glasgow, United Kigdom; 3: Loughborough University, United Kingdom



4:30pm - 4:45pm

FT-IR Analysis Of Aerosols In Microgravity

Charles Graziani1, Mathieu Nespoulous1, Renaud Denoyel1, Nicolas P. Martin1, Stephan Fauve2, Christian Chauveau3, Mickael Antoni1

1: Aix-Marseille university, France; 2: 2LP ENS-Paris, France; 3: CNRS–ICARE, University Orléans, France



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Purely-Dissolutive Wetting Behaviours in Metallic Systems: a Combined Experimental and Numerical Approach

Youqing Sun1,2, Shoufeng Yang1, Xinghong Cai2,3, Zhongfu Cheng2, Wantong Chen2, Nele Moelans2, Muxing Guo2, David Seveno2

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



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Spreading Of Graphene Oxide Suspension Droplets On Smooth Surfaces

Jennifer, A. Quirke1,2, Matthias E. Möbius1

1: School of Physics, AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 2: School of Science, Atlantic Technological University Galway, Ireland



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Understanding Cu/W Wettability to Enable Liquid Metal Infiltration for Advanced Composites

Wantong Chen, Vanmeensel Kim, David Seveno

KU Leuven, Belgium



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Wetting Dynamics of Initially Pure Alcoholic Sessile Droplets in Humid Conditions

Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan1, Alexey Rednikov1, Sam Dehaeck2, Pierre Colinet1

1: Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: Flanders Make, Kortrijk, Belgium



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Droplet Deposition on Ice: Does Water Wet Its Own Solid?

Wladimir Sarlin1, Daniel Papa1, Axel Huerre2, Thomas Séon3, Christophe Josserand1

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


Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
10:45am
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11:15am
Keynote Speech by Burak Eral
Location: Room 304
Non-photochemical laser induced nucleation: Transient thermocavition bubbles triggered by light for controlling crystallization from solution
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 8
Location: Room 304
 
11:15am - 11:30am

The Peculiar Shape of Air Bubbles Trapped in Ice

Virgile Thiévenaz1,2, Jochem G. Meijer3, Detlef Lohse3,4, Alban Sauret2,5

1: PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Cité, F-75005, Paris, France; 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA; 3: Physics of Fluids Group and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Department of Science and Technology, J.M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics, and MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 4: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany; 5: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA



11:30am - 11:45am

Engineering Porosity: Challenges and Solutions in Freeze-Drying Colloidal Suspensions

Sidhanth Tyagi, Laurent Forny, Fausto Di Muzio

Nestlé Product Technology Centre Coffee, Switzerland



11:45am - 12:00pm

Water Spreading on Ice: Water Wets Ice Partially Only!

Christophe Josserand1, Wladimir Sarlin1, Daniel Papa1, Axel Huerre2, Thomas Séon3

1: LadHyX, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, 91120, France; 2: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université Paris Cité, CNRS, UMR 7057, Paris, 75013, France; 3: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física, IFIBA, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Repeated Drop Impact on a Cold Substrate: the Case of Ice Stalagmites

Daniel Papa, Christophe Josserand, Caroline Cohen

LadHyX, UMR7646 du CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France

1:45pm
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2:15pm
Keynote Speech by Hanneke Gelderblom
Location: Room 304
Active bacterial pattern formation inside evaporating droplets
2:15pm
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3:15pm
Oral Session 11
Location: Room 304
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm

Droplet Evaporation on Porous Substrates

David Craig1, Stephen K. Wilson2,1, Alexander W. Wray1, Khellil Sefiane3

1: University of Strathclyde; 2: University of Bath; 3: University of Edinburgh



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Evaporation of Annular Droplets

Stephen Wilson1,2, Laura Mills2, Hannah-May D'Ambrosio3, Brian Duffy2, Alexander Wray2, Khellil Sefiane4

1: University of Bath, United Kingdom; 2: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 3: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom



2:45pm - 3:00pm

How Fast Does Coffee Evaporate?

Paul Bienvenu, David Quéré

Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, PSL Research University, ESPCI, 75005 Paris, France



3:00pm - 3:15pm

3D+t Sessile Droplet Evaporation Dynamics

Andres Bribiesca Sanchez1,2, Fernando Montoya1, Gabriel Corkidi1, Eduardo Ramos3

1: Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 2: Graduate Program in Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 3: Renewable Energy Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

3:45pm
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5:00pm
Oral Session 14
Location: Room 304
 
3:45pm - 4:00pm

Marangoni Flow Driven Hysteresis And Azimuthal Symmetry Breaking In Evaporating Binary Droplets

Duarte Rocha1, Detlef Lohse1,2, Christian Diddens1

1: Physics of Fluids Department, Max-Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics and J. M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Faßberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany



4:00pm - 4:15pm

Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Condensate Formation in Evaporation-driven Phase Separation

Udo Sen, Manikuntala Mukhopadhyay, Jasper van der Gucht

Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, The



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Droplet Growth Due To The Kelvin Effect In Evaporating Microdroplet Arrays

David John Fairhurst1, Fouzia Ouali2, Joey Kilbride1

1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Surface bubbles Accelerate Evaporation

Xue Ma, Ambre Bouillant, Axel Huerre, Matthieu Roché

Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS, Université Paris Cité, France



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Diffraction of Walking Droplets by a Standing Wave

Loïc Tadrist1, Tristan Gilet2

1: Aix-Marseille Université, France; 2: University of Liege, Belgium


Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 17
Location: Room 304
 
11:15am - 11:30am

Thermal Antibubbles in Microgravity: Formation, Stability, and Heat Transfer

Aymeric Allemand1, Cyril André2, Jonas Miguet1, Thomas Gemine2, Stephane Dorbolo2, Benoit Scheid1

1: TIPs, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: PtYX, CESAM-Soft Matter Pole, Université de Liège, Belgium



11:30am - 11:45am

Water Droplet Evaporating On A Salt Substrate: From Flow Reversal to Hollow Rim

Jean Colombani1, Christophe Pirat1, Irina Vodolazskaya2

1: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; 2: Astrakhan State University, Russia



11:45am - 12:00pm

Hydrodynamics of Protein Transport in an Evaporating Sessile Model Respiratory Droplet

Javier Martínez Puig1, Javier Rodríguez Rodíguez1, Álvaro Marín2

1: Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain; 2: University of Twente



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Respiratory Droplet Dynamics: Evaporation, Sedimentation, and Implications for Airborne Disease Transmission

Benoit Haut1, Omer Atasi1, Benjamin Sobac2

1: Transfers, Interfaces and Processes (TIPs Lab), Université libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; 2: CNRS, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, 64600 Anglet, France

1:45pm
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2:15pm
Keynote Speech by Jacco Snoeijer
Location: Room 304
Soft Condensation
2:15pm
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4:00pm
Oral Session 20
Location: Room 304
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm

Dew Water Harvesting on Surfaces by Conductive Cooling: Understanding the Condensation Process

Sergio Parra-Vicente, Miguel Cabrerizo-Vílchez, Francisco Javier Montes Ruiz-Cabello, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Valverder

University of Granada, Spain



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Simulations of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Droplets

Mirko Gallo, Matteo Teodori, Dario Abbondanza, Carlo Massimo Casciola

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Advanced Condensation Control on Biphilic Jumping Droplet Surfaces

Hiroki Yachida1, Sophia Laney2, Martyna Michalska2, Ioannis Papakonstantinou2, Timothée Mouterde1

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: University College London, UK



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Formation and Growth of Dew Droplets on Grass Leaves

Sepideh Khodaparast, Bashra Mahamed, Francis Dent

University of Leeds, United Kingdom



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Waste Heat Recovery Using A Binary Solution

Marie-Caroline Jullien1, Marc Pascual1,2, Axelle Amon1, Nicolas Chapuis2, Soufiane Abdelghani- Idrissi2, Alessandro Siria2, Lydéric Bocquet2

1: CNRS, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Univ Rennes, France; 2: Laboratoire de Physique, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Bioinspired Kirigami Fog Nets : from the lab to the field

Denis Terwagne1,2, Pierre-Brice Bintein1,2, Axel Cornu1,2, Nicolas De Coster2,4, Nicolas Vandewalle3, Floriane Weyer3

1: Frugal Lab, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium; 2: Fab Lab ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium; 3: GRASP, Faculté des Sciences, University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium.; 4: Institut Royal Météorologique (IRM), Brussels, Belgium



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Microfluidic Methods For Gas Nucleation From Supersaturated Aqueous Solutions For Studying Dissolved Gas Flotation

Anil Hatiboglu, Evdokia Saiti, Gisle Øye, Nadia Shardt

Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway