The energy deposition in a liquid drop on a nanosecond time scale by impact of a laser pulse can induce various reactions, such as vaporization or plasma generation. The hydrodynamic response of the drop can be extremely violent: The drop gets strongly deformed and propelled forward at several m/s, and subsequently fragments or even explodes. […]
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Matteo Lulli
Evaporation of Droplets under flow The aim of the project if to develop a stable and accurate numerical technique based on the Lattice-Boltzmann scheme to quantitatively study the diffusion behaviour of multicomponent droplets under flow. The ability of simulating correctly the diffusive dynamics of multicomponent droplets in presence of advection is per se an challenging […]
Pinaki Kumar
Earthquake dynamics - Understanding Their physics from modeling soft glassy materials Developing a quantitative connection between the physics of complex soft-glassy materials below yield stress and the dynamics of stick-slip faulting events leading to earthquakes. A novel formulation based on the multicomponent Lattice Boltzmann method is used to investigate fundamental issues related to natural seismicity, to […]
Life in a Turbulent Environment
Life in a Turbulent Environment: How the Dynamic Ocean Shapes the Distribution, Diversity and Growth of Microorganisms Workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, February 19-20, 2015 Link: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/life_in_a_turbulent_environment Executive Summary This two-day workshop convenes expertise from the physical, biological and ocean sciences to stimulate a multidisciplinary discussion on how the […]
Alumni postdoc
Calin Dan - Prasad Perkelar - Now faculty at TIFR Hyderabad (India) Roger Jeurissen - Now at ACFD Consultancy (NL) Badr Kaoui - Now postdoc at Universität Bayreuth (Germany) Oleksii Rudenko - Now at ASML (NL) Valentina Lavezzo - Now at Philips (NL) Andrea Scagliarini - Now Staff Scientist, Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (Germany) […]
Alumni Ph.D. students
Florian Janoschek (defended 11 December 2013) Theo Driessen (defended 20 December 2013, at University of Twente co-supervised with Detlef Lohse) Sudhir Srivastava (defended 7 May 2014) Riccardo Scatamacchia (defended 29 January 2015) Francesca Storti (defended 8 December 2014) Alessandro Corbetta (defended 1 February 2016) […]
Sten Reijers
Compressible effects in drops impacted by a laser pulse The impact of a laser pulse onto a liquid droplet induces strong deformation and propulsion of the droplet. Here, we aim to understand the droplet dynamics by performing lattice-Boltzmann simulations and doing a theoretical analysis. In the simulations, we model the laser impact as a pressure […]