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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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 […]
Convection in multiphase fluid flows using lattice Boltzmann methods
Biferale, L., Perlekar, P., Sbragaglia, M. & Toschi, F. (2012). Convection in multiphase fluid flows using lattice Boltzmann methods. Physical Review Letters, 108(10):104502 DOI We present high-resolution numerical simulations of convection in multiphase flows (boiling) using a novel algorithm based on a lattice Boltzmann method. We first study the thermodynamical and kinematic properties of the […]
Inverse energy cascade in three-dimensional isotropic turbulence
Biferale, L., Musacchio, S. & Toschi, F. (2012). Inverse energy cascade in three-dimensional isotropic turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 108(16):164501 DOI We study the statistical properties of homogeneous and isotropic three-dimensional () turbulent flows. By introducing a novel way to make numerical investigations of Navier-Stokes equations, we show that all 3D flows in nature possess a […]