Oxford Fluid Dynamics Lab

Nice concert next Monday: Bach at New College: Ela Kodžas and Luke Mitchell new.ox.ac.uk/bach-new-colle…

Drops impacting textiles is a common occurance. How the details of the texture control spreading and splashing is the focus of our newly published paper. Hamza Iqbal, @MQuetzeri, @RafaelCastrejon, @oxengsci @uclmecheng sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just published! Droplet impact and splashing on surfactant-laden shallow pools sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @ConstanteAmores @MQuetzeri @rafacastrejon @RafaelCastrejon @FluidsTom @alfonsoacp @EPSRC @oxengsci

Our work on nanosuspension drops is out! JCIS @ELSchemistry sciencedirect.com/science/articl…… Nanoparticles do not influence droplet break-up, spreading, or splashing. Hamza Iqbal @RafaelCastrejon @MeteAbbot @nanoPaInt1 @oxengsci @uclmecheng

Congrats @ConstanteAmores and team!! @JFluidMech @oxengsci

I'm co-organising a conference on ice physics in Switzerland next year in beautiful Ticino. Check out ice2025.ethz.ch for more details, and come join us for an amazing week!

#WelcomeToOxford to all the students moving in and beginning their new chapter at The University of Oxford! Our teaching staff share their advice and insights to make the most of your time here. Get ready for an exciting journey ahead in Engineering Science! 🚀@OxUniStudents

This is Alva's first first-author paper, and they cap the paper off with beautiful images of very strongly chiral droplets, which develop a colourful fingerprint texture in both the experiments and simulations! Thanks to @oxengsci, @royalsociety, @EPSRC and John Fell Fund Oxford!

The mechanism behind this was identified using advanced numerical simulations in collaboration with Julia Yeomans @OxfordPhysics, showing that randomness in the initial quench of the nematic droplet during the printing process can lead to different outcomes.

How does the interplay between chirality in liquid crystals and the shape of inkjet printed droplets affect the structures that form within them? We answer this in a paper in @softmatter by @alvacjorr with X.Qiu, @FluidsTom, @waqaskamal16, and @alfonsoacp doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00…

Drop impact onto immiscible liquid films floating on pools @OxfordFluids @rcimpeanu @alfonsoacp nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Drop impact onto immiscible liquid films floating on pools @OxfordFluids @rcimpeanu @alfonsoacp nature.com/articles/s4159…

Fresh off the press! Led by @Mengmeng_mml on printing liquid crystals for optical vortex beam generators. Adv. Opt. Mater. @MansfieldOxford @oxengsci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

In this work, we explore how the impact of a drop onto a pool is modified by the presence of a floating layer of an immiscible liquid. In these movies we show a drop of water impacting a layer of silicone oil floating on a pool of water: experiments and simulations agree well!

Ben Fudge's latest paper published today! A very nice piece of research, combining high-res simulations and high-speed imaging @oxengsci @wadhamoxford rdcu.be/dKIAw with @rcimpeanu @alfonsoacp doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

This paper represents the culmination of hard work developing an EHD DoD device to create micron-sized liquid crystal drops for optoelectronic applications. Well done @WaqasKamal16 for leading the research!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Remarkable blue phosphor from ultra-thin nanosheets & printable! - Read latest research by @d_a_sherman @WaqasKamal16 @OxfordFluids Open Access - 🚥💡⚡️🖨️sciencedirect.com/science/articl…