Mobile Interfaces and Adsorbed Surfactants in Emulsions
Research goal
Coalescence and break-up of droplets governs numerous industrial processes. The current practice of predicting and modeling such systems lacks fundamental rigor, making the scale-up and scale-down procedures unreliable. The aim of this project is to develop a mesoscopic DNS framework to study droplet dynamics under turbulent conditions in surfactant laden emulsions. The results can help formulate more accurate coalescence and break-up models useful for macroscopic simulations.
Snapshots of the normalized surfactant density fields (blue-green) shown for a spinodal decomposition simulation, which shows the coarsening of droplets by coalescence (left to right). The droplet contours are shown in white over half the domain.
Researcher
Ir. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Funded by
ISPT