Droplets on heated, textured surfaces – how do they move?
Vahid Taheri (DC#5) joins #LeidenForce to study how surface microstructures control droplet dynamics and the Leidenfrost temperature.
With Prof. Maria Fernandino (NTNU), @airbus & Université de Lille
🔗 Read more: https://shorturl.at/bNu4x
▶️ New video!
Watch a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of a pure water Leidenfrost droplet in full detail, simulated with #pyoomph. Footage recorded by Maxim de Wildt (DC#9, #LeidenForce) at @utwente
🇧🇪 #LeidenForce team spirit mixing scientific discussions, new encounters, iconic boulets-frites… and a few stolen fries ;)
📷 @stephanedorbolo Cyril André, Gauri Patki, Cheikh Tidiane DIOUM @UniversitedeLiege & Alexis Duchesne (Université de Lille)
LAB CHRONICLE #11
-Quick Thought-
The camera captures everything.
I capture nothing.
Everything’s fine.
What happens when a droplet meets another liquid heated far beyond its boiling point?
That’s the challenge explored by Arghya Mukherjee (DC#8), who has just joined #LeidenForce to study the Leidenfrost effect on liquid baths — an area still largely uncharted.
Supervision: Benjamin Sobac (LFCR, @cnrs -UPPA) & @stephanedorbolo @UniversitedeLiege F.R.S.–FNRS).
The first steps of Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
@UniversitedeLiege with Karl Fleury-Frenette.
#PhDLife #LeidenForce #Research #SpaceScience #HorizonEurope
Welcome Gauri Patki (DC#4) to LeidenForce!
She will study Leidenfrost jets through experiments at @Laboratoire_IEMN Université de Lille & @UniversitedeLiege PtYX, supervised by Alexis Duchesne and @stephanedorbolo , with a 6-month @airbus secondment.
🔗 https://www.leidenforce.eu/welcomegaurinews
#LeidenForce #LeidenfrostJets #FluidDynamics #Microfluidics #ExperimentalResearch
LAB CHRONICLE #9
-Experiment Summary-
The droplet moves.
The equipment records.
Result: I still have no idea what’s going on.
Welcome Pablo Gil González DC#1 to #LeidenForce!
He’ll study the dynamic regimes of a single droplet in the #Leidenfrost state & its vapor film stability.
Research @ULBruxelles with Pierre Colinet + secondments at ESPCI Paris, NTNU, @UniversitedeLiege @utwente
🔗Read more: https://www.leidenforce.eu/welcomepablonews
✨ Welcome Mélanie Bulois (DC#10) to LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the Leidenfrost effect in multiphase microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ULBruxelles with Benoit Scheid + secondment at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)
🔗 Read more: http://www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelanienews
#LeidenfrostEffect #Microfluidics #DropletDynamics #ScientificResearch #LeidenForce
LAB CHRONICLE #8
-Researcher’s Note-
“The drop still refuses to touch the plate.
It’s been eight months.
I feel like I know more about avoidance than physics.”
#ExperimentalSetup #EightMonthsLater #AvoidanceDynamics #WaitingForContact #LeidenForce
Discover a new video on our LeidenForce channel:
Droplet Impact in the Leidenfrost State – High-Speed Observation on a Granular Substrate
Experiment carried out at @UniversitedeLiege by @stephanedorbolo & Cheikh Tidiane DIOUM as part of the European research project LeidenForce.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fttepi4QTs
#LeidenfrostEffect #FluidDynamics #Droplet #LeidenForce #HorizonEurope
