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Inside #LeidenForce - Summer 2026
On the road • LeidenBeauty • Fluid inspirations
Several of our PhDs presented across 3 countries, from #Leidenfrost droplets in Italy to electrostatics in Florida.
Here’s your summer dose of LeidenForce: https://shorturl.at/hse2j
Can a droplet move uphill on its own?
The answer isn't a simple yes or no...
🎥 Episode 2 of our doctoral series: an interview with Gauri Patki (working alongside Stéphane Dorbolo at PtYX, @UniversitedeLiege and Alexis Duchesne at IEMN, Université de Lille, @cnrs) on Leidenfrost jets.
Her vision of research, her path, and a bold bridge toward micro-robotics.
🔗 https://youtu.be/Ew0EZS-0ZN8
#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #TrueForce #HorizonEurope #MSCA #PhDLife
A vapor film acts as an insulating layer around a hot surface, but it can also oscillate and become unstable.
This study shows how phase change, heat transfer and liquid viscosity jointly control the stability of the film around a hot sphere.
🔬 At the 13th #CMiF #SummerSchool (#DTU), Cheikh, Gauri and Lorena presented their research on the #Leidenfrost effect and, more importantly, put their results in front of researchers outside the project.
One of the most useful exercises in a PhD.
🌍 Summer moves continue!
In July, Maxim attended the #CISM course Fluid Flows On, In, and of Curved Geometries in Udine, exploring fluid dynamics and interfacial instabilities relevant to Leidenfrost phenomena.
He also presented his research on Leidenfrost droplets, ambient humidity and drop circulation.
More summer events to come!
#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #FluidDynamics @utwente #HorizonEurope
🌍LeidenForce researchers on the move this summer
In June, Tomas Cerda represented LeidenForce at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the #Electrostatics Society of America in Cocoa Beach, Florida, presenting his work on electric charge on #Leidenfrost droplets, with research from ISTA, Waitukaitis SEML and #LeidenForce
A great opportunity to exchange ideas on electrostatics and bring new
perspectives back to the lab.
More summer stories to come!
📷 © P. Mehrani
💡Did you know?
European research is documented long before scientific papers are published.
Throughout #HorizonEurope projects, deliverables are produced to report scientific progress, describe methodologies, and share project outcomes.
LeidenForce is now making a selection of these documents publicly available through its new Public Deliverables page.
🔗 Read more: http://www.leidenforce.eu/horizon-europe-public-deliverables-news
#OpenScience #Leidenfrost #FluidDynamics #Research #Milestones
From fluid interfaces to thermal extremes, modern physics increasingly relies on crossing disciplinary boundaries to make sense of complex phenomena.
🔗 https://physicsworld.com/a/why-interdisciplinary-science-is-needed-more-than-ever/
#Physics #Leidenfrost #MaterialsScience #ThermalPhysics #interdisciplinary
A new capillary design enables vapor-layer levitation without complex surface fabrication, opening paths toward low-friction motion and more efficient thermal management systems.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-05-surface-thermal-enables-frictionless.html
#Leidenfrost #FrictionlessMotion #CoolingTech #AppliedPhysics #Innovation
Tiny pressure oscillations can strongly affect #BubbleDynamics during #boiling.
Understanding these instabilities is key to predicting transitions toward #Leidenfrost states and improving #HeatTransfer control in extreme thermal conditions.
Droplet impacts on superheated surfaces do not cool smoothly. This study shows a nonlinear shift driven by vapor film dynamics.
Above a critical impact velocity, heat transfer jumps sharply, revealing a threshold behavior linked to the Leidenfrost regime.
▪️ Liquid jets: dynamics and instability▪️
Learn how liquid jets form and break up
➡️ Essential for understanding Leidenfrost droplet trajectories.
Video from the "Dynamics of fluid interfaces" MOOC by ESPCI Paris - PSL.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2i1meVgtEI&list=PLcbz7zf4dTyk9BqlBPLpgI48i9TiorpEi&index=16
A new AI approach, trained on physical equations, allows identifying the moment when a stable flow becomes unstable.
Machine learning could transform simulations in engineering, weather, and extreme events.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ai-method-flags-fluid-simulations.html
#FluidDynamics #MachineLearning #ComputationalPhysics #Bifurcation #leidenfrost
Gauri & Cheikh are presenting their work today at the #PhysicsPhDDay
@UniversitedeLiege
• Particle trapping & releasing by #Leidenfrost droplets
• Heat Transfer Effects of Leidenfrost Jets
A great opportunity for scientific exchange during the #PosterSession.
LAB CHRONICLE #30
Thermal Control
200 °C on the dot.
I exhale, relieved.
→ 201 °C.
→ Leidenfrost: 1, Researcher: 0.
#Leidenfrost #ThermalTension #ScienceVsHumanity #PhysicsStrikesBack #HotExperiments
▪️ Liquid films and sheets: capillarity at large scale ▪️
Liquid films and sheets reveal the role of inertia and capillarity.
Learn more in this video from the "Dynamics of fluid interfaces" MOOC by ESPCI Paris PSL.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqRFG2-jyA&list=PLcbz7zf4dTyk9BqlBPLpgI48i9TiorpEi&index=15
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How surface microstructures affect Leidenfrost droplets.
Numerical results show that pillar size and spacing control vapour escape under the drop, which can delay or suppress the Leidenfrost state and modify droplet rebound.
🔗 https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/38/3/032007/3382441/Numerical-study-of-bouncing-Leidenfrost
#Leidenfrost #DropletDynamics #HeatTransfer #FluidDynamics #NumericalSimulation
🎉 #LeidenForce turns one!
Yesterday, we celebrated our first anniversary.
To mark the occasion, we are sharing a video introducing the Doctoral Candidates who drive the project forward. This teaser marks the beginning of a series of interviews.
▶️ Discover the faces behind LeidenForce – #Trueforce: https://youtu.be/VAdR3VmmpkU?si=pcBFLCoKMl1xOdYD
ULB | @utwente | ISTA | @UniversitedeLiege de Liège | ULille | NTNU | UCBL | UPPA | ESPCI
#MSCA #HorizonEurope #DoctoralNetwork #Leidenfrost #Research #Science #PhD
🎳 Bowling break at the #LeidenForce Winter School! PhD students, postdocs, speakers & the team had fun.
💡 Can you guess the participants behind these team names… or spot the winners?
Hint: they’re pairs! 🏆
#LeidenForce #WinterSchool #Leidenfrost #TeamSpirit #LabLife #ScienceFun
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
Day 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon ISTA – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc, @ULBruxelles TIPS Lab), Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan (@ULBruxelles TIPS Lab) shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.
#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics
PhD talks at #LeidenForce Winter School (Days 2–3):
Apurav Tambe (Univ. of Waterloo), Gauri Patki @UniversitedeLiege & Université de Lille), Pablo Gil Gonzalez & Mélanie Bulois @ULBruxelles, Cheikh Tidiane Dioum (Univ. of Liège), Tristan Simon @cnrs Saint-Gobain.
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.
Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School morning:
Maria Fernandino (NTNU) on modeling approaches for evaporation & the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg framework.
Jacco Snoeijer @utwente on lubrication, Landau–Levich theory & #Leidenfrost physics.
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente :
Benjamin Sobac ( @cnrs – UPPA, LFCR) on Leidenfrost drops—> shape & levitation, dynamics, take-off vs explosion, and substrate effects.
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).
Day 2 #LeidenForce #WinterSchool @utwente
Opening lecture by @stephanedorbolo @UniversitedeLiege on the consortium & WP.
History, #Leidenfrost mechanisms, and original experiments including a Leidenfrost droplet race.
🔗To learn more: https://www.leidenforce.eu/partners
Day 1 closed with #PhD talks:
🔸Vahid Taheri - NTNU – Thermal Two-Phase Flow Laboratory
🔸Maxim de Wildt @utwente – Physics of Fluids Group
🔸Lorena V. Garcia - Institut Lumière Matière @cnrs – UCBL
More today 🚀
#WinterSchool #FluidDynamics #Leidenfrost #Research #PhDlife
Day 1 recap at #LeidenForce Winter School:
🔹David Quéré (ESPCI): overview of Leidenfrost regimes and phenomena.
🔹Detlef Lohse @utwente : Leidenfrost impacts, jet formation, impact phases & key parameters.
#Leidenfrost #WinterSchool #FluidDynamics #DropletImpact #Physics
- Gravity effects on liquid-solid contact -
Gravity affects the shape and motion of droplets. Discover its role in the Leidenfrost phenomenon in these ESPCI Paris - PSL MOOC videos.
🎥 1️⃣ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxZAKuFFAM&list=PLcbz7zf4dTyk9BqlBPLpgI48i9TiorpEi&index=8
🎥 2️⃣ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9yaGzN7J8&list=PLcbz7zf4dTyk9BqlBPLpgI48i9TiorpEi&index=9
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#GravityEffects #FluidPhysics #Leidenfrost #FluidDynamics #Physics
Edelstahlpfanne „einbrennen“: Im Netz kursieren Anleitungen, die Antihaft versprechen. Ich habe die Methode nachvollzogen und mit Alltagsgerichten geprüft - Protokoll und Befund im Text. #edelstahlpfanne #einbrennen #edelstahl #pfanne #patina #leidenfrost #antihaft #braten #küche #kochtipps #pfannentest #gusseisen #karbonstahl #reinigung #pfannenpflege
https://alltagsfuchs.de/haushalt-reinigung/haushaltsgeraete/edelstahlpfanne-einbrennen/
What happened this summer at LeidenForce?
New ways to share our research, new scientific events, and more to come this fall!
➡️ Read our Summer 2025 highlights here: https://www.leidenforce.eu/summer25recapnews
In 1756, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost described the Leidenfrost effect, when a drop of water skittles erratically on a hot surface. #Poetry #Science #History #Leidenfrost (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1756b.html)