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  1. Tiny droplets, big potential.

    Yale scientists studied 5,000 breakups to understand how droplets split under different conditions.

    A step forward for microfluidics applications.

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-03-precise-

    #Microfluidics #dropletphysics #softmatter #MicroReactors #drugdelivery

  2. Tiny droplets, big potential.

    Yale scientists studied 5,000 breakups to understand how droplets split under different conditions.

    A step forward for microfluidics applications.

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-03-precise-

    #Microfluidics #dropletphysics #softmatter #MicroReactors #drugdelivery

  3. Scientists are creating “animate” droplets that can act, adapt, and respond on their own, blurring the line between living and non-living matter.

    Could this inspire new ways to control liquids?

    🔗 physicsworld.com/a/droplet-sci

    #softmatter #ActiveMatter #dropletphysics #AutonomousSystems #fluiddynamics

  4. New high-speed videos show that side-by-side droplets in a fast airflow fragment in predictable ways: they form sacs, stretch into threads, or even merge depending on their spacing.

    A phase diagram captures these transitions.

    🔗 journals.aps.org/prfluids/abst

    #FluidDynamics #DropletPhysics #HighSpeedImaging #Atomization #SprayScience

  5. Day 4 morning – last lectures at #LeidenForce Winter School: David Paulovics @utwente on impinging Leidenfrost jets, Alexis Duchesne from Université de Lille on levitated liquid tori & star-shaped drops. Experiments & curiosity!

    #LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidMechanics #PhysicsExperiments #LabLife

  6. Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School afternoon:

    Benoît Scheid @ULBruxelles on antibubbles & heat/mass transfer toward encapsulated Leidenfrost droplets.

    Christian Diddens @utwente on sharp-interface finite element simulations for #Leidenfrost droplets.

    #MultiphaseFlows #DropletPhysics #NumericalSimulation

  7. Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente :
    Benjamin Sobac ( @cnrs – UPPA, LFCR) on Leidenfrost drops—> shape & levitation, dynamics, take-off vs explosion, and substrate effects.

    #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidDynamics

  8. Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente

    Dominique Legendre (IMFT) on numerical modeling of moving contact lines, linking microscopic mechanisms to macroscopic spreading laws via CFD (VoF).

    🔗 leidenforce.eu/partners

    #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #CFD #NumericalSimulation