Computational Investigation of the Clustering of Droplets in Widening Pipe Geometries

• Published in: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation pp. 82 - 93
• Main Authors: Matuttis, Hans-Georg, Schneider, Johannes Josef, Li, Jin, Barrow, David Anthony, Faggian, Alessia, Diaz, Aitor Patiño, Holler, Silvia, Casiraghi, Federica, Sanahuja, Lorena Cebolla, Hanczyc, Martin Michael, Weyland, Mathias Sebastian, Flumini, Dandolo, Hotz, Peter Eggenberger, Dimitriou, Pantelitsa, Jamieson, William David, Castell, Oliver, Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature Switzerland
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: clustering of droplets; droplets in fluids; Micro-fluidics; multiphase flow

Experimentally, periodically released droplets in systems of widening pipes show clustering. This is surprising, as purely hydrodynamic interactions are repulsive so that agglomeration should be prevented. In the main part of this paper, we investigate the clustering of droplets under the influence...