The stressful way of droplets along single-fiber strands: A computational analysis
Publication as cover article for Physics of Fluids
2023/02/16
The publication “The stressful way of droplets along single-fibre strands: A computational analysis” by Francisco Bodziony, Martin Wörner and Holger Marschall was selected as cover article of the January issue of the journal Physics of Fluids.
Droplets wetting and moving on fibers are omnipresent in both nature and industry. However, little is known on the local stresses the fiber substrates experiences and, in turn, the local forces acting on those droplets while moving on vertical fiber strands. This work is concerned with disclosing the influence of droplet volume, viscosity, and chemical substrate heterogeneity on droplet motion. For this purpose, we pursue a computational simulation campaign by means of direct numerical simulations resolving all relevant spatial and temporal scales.
Francisco Bodziony, Martin Wörner, Holger Marschall: The stressful way of droplets along single-fiber strands: A computational analysis, Physics of Fluids 35, 012110, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131032
