Impact of a suspension drop onto a hot substrate: diminution of splash and prevention of film boiling.

In the present study, the effect of graphite lubricant additives on the dynamics of a single drop impact onto a heated surface has been investigated in the nucleate boiling and thermal atomization regimes. In the nucleate boiling regime the drop impact is accompanied by the nucleation and expansion of multiple vapor bubbles. The drop residence time at the substrate is determined by the time of its mass loss due to splash and evaporation.

Effect of starvation and pesticide exposure on neutral lipid composition of the digestive gland of males of the apple snails Pomacea canaliculata.

Pollutants as well as starvation usually modify homeostasis of neutral lipids in aquatic organisms. However, studies on the simultaneous effects of both stressors are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of toxicant exposure under starvation conditions on neutral lipids of the freshwater snail Pomacea canaliculata, selected as the model organism.

A method for scattering angle calibration in the rainbow region using a droplet stream.

Accurate quantification of scattering angle versus detector pixel strongly determines the measurement accuracy of rainbow refractometry. This is an emerging measurement technique operating at backscatter angles and characterizing droplets or complex droplets in terms of size and refractive index. A novel method for calibration of the rainbow scattering angle using a monodisperse droplet stream is introduced and the achievable accuracy is estimated.

Integrating morphology and physiology of the key endocrine organ during tadpole development: The interrenal gland.

Indirect development is widespread in anurans and is considered an ancestral condition. The metamorphosis of larvae into juveniles involves highly coordinated morphological, physiological, biochemical, and behavioral changes, promoted by the thyroid hormone and interrenal corticosteroids. Stress response to environmental changes is also mediated by corticosteroids, affecting the timing and rate of metamorphosis and leading to great developmental plasticity in tadpoles.

Brothers are better than nothing: first report of incestuous mating and inbreeding depression in a freshwater decapod crustacean.

This study aimed at evaluating the effect of one generation of full-sibling mating on traits related to the fitness of the gregarious freshwater shrimp Neocaridina davidi, both under optimal and stressful (i.e. starvation) laboratory conditions.

Ice nucleation forced by transient electric fields.

Icing affects many technical systems, like aircraft or high-voltage power transmission and distribution in cold regions. Ice accretion is often initiated by ice nucleation in sessile supercooled water droplets and is influenced by several influencing factors, of which the impact of electric fields on ice nucleation is still not completely understood. Especially the influence of transient electric fields is rarely or not at all investigated, even though it is of great interest, e.

Planar rainbow refractometry.

Rainbow refractometry has been used in the past to measure size and refractive index of spherical particles, typically droplets in a spray. In the present study, conventional optical configurations for point measurements or line measurements have been extended to allow also the particle position in a plane to be determined, and hence, the designation planar rainbow refractometry. However, this extension introduces challenges in accurately calibrating the 2D scattering angles with the image coordinates.

Geometric optics applied to drops passing through a focused Gaussian beam.

The present study examines the scattered light intensity from a drop passing through a Gaussian beam of a diameter comparable to or smaller than the drop. This is the situation encountered when using the time-shift technique, an optical technique used to characterize drops and aerosols according to the size and the velocity. In simulating the signals received by such an instrument, the computational effort involved when using, for instance, the Generalized Lorenz-Mie Theory or vector ray-tracing, is immense and hardly practical for use in instrument design and/or optimization.

Ice nucleation in high alternating electric fields: Effect of electric field strength and frequency.

Icing is a severe problem for many technical systems such as aircraft or systems for high-voltage power transmission and distribution. Ice nucleation in water droplets is affected by several influencing factors like impurities or the liquid temperature, which have been widely investigated. However, although an electric field affects nucleation, this influence has been far less investigated and is still not completely understood.

Impact of electric charge and motion of water drops on the inception field strength of partial discharges.

Strong electric fields may deform drops and induce their oscillation or motion on the substrate. Moreover, they can initiate partial discharges (PDs) because of the enhancement of the electric field in the vicinity of the three-phase contact lines. The partial discharges affect the drop spreading which can result in unusual drop shapes.

Simulation of the optical caustics associated with the primary rainbow for oblate spheroidal drops illuminated by a Gaussian beam.

A vector ray-tracing model (VRT) has been developed to compute the optical caustics associated with the primary rainbow for an oblate spheroidal water drop illuminated by a Gaussian beam. By comparing the optical caustic structures (in terms of limiting rainbow and hyperbolic umbilic fringes) for a water drop with a Gaussian beam (GB) illumination with that for the same drop, but with parallel beam (PB) illumination, the influence of the Gaussian beam on the optical caustics is investigated. For a water drop with GB illumination and different drop/beam ratios (i.

Parametric Sequential Method for MRI-Based Wall Shear Stress Quantification.

Wall shear stress (WSS) has been suggested as a potential biomarker in various cardiovascular diseases and it can be estimated from phase-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PC-MRI) velocity measurements. We present a parametric sequential method for MRI-based WSS quantification consisting of a geometry identification and a subsequent approximation of the velocity field. This work focuses on its validation, investigating well controlled high-resolution in vitro measurements of turbulent stationary flows and physiological pulsatile flows in phantoms.

Behavior of charged and uncharged drops in high alternating tangential electric fields.

The interaction of drops and electric fields occurs in many applications like electrowetting, electrospinning, atomization, but also causes unwanted effects like the aging of high-voltage composite insulators. Water drops are influenced by electric fields due to the polar properties of the water molecules. The behavior of the drops depends on several parameters like the orientation and strength of the electric field, drop volume, and frequency of the applied field.

Simulation of light scattering from a colloidal droplet using a polarized Monte Carlo method: application to the time-shift technique.

This study is devoted to the development and application of a Monte Carlo ray-tracing model to simulate light scattering when a colloid suspension droplet passes through a highly focused Gaussian laser sheet. Within this study, a colloidal suspension droplet refers to a spherical droplet containing multiple spherical inclusions. Such scattering scenarios arise when using the time-shift measurement technique for particle sizing.

MR-based wall shear stress measurements in fully developed turbulent flow using the Clauser plot method.

In arterial blood flow wall shear stress (WSS) quantifies the frictional force that flowing blood exerts on a vessel wall. WSS can be directly estimated from phase-contrast (PC) MR velocity measurements and has been suggested as a biomarker in cardio-vascular diseases. We present and investigate the application of the Clauser plot method for estimating WSS in fully developed turbulent stationary flow using PC velocity measurements.

Model for computing optical caustic partitions for the primary rainbow from tilted spheriodal drops.

A model is proposed to compute the salient optical caustic partitions occurring in the primary rainbow for oblate spheroidal drops. By computing the boundary limits of outgoing rays, the optical caustic structures (termed rainbow and hyperbolic umbilic fringes) for tilted drops are calculated and compared with those for aligned (untilted) drops. The curvature of the rainbow fringe and the shifts of cusp caustics are discussed as well.

Getting ready for mating: The importance of male touching as an accelerator of ovarian growth in a caridean shrimp.

The present study was aimed at evaluating the effect of male presence on ovarian maturation in juvenile females and the role of potential chemical, visual and tactile cues emitted by males in that physiological process. A highly gregarious caridean shrimp with sexual dimorphism, Neocaridina davidi, was used as experimental model. We tested the hypothesis that male presence accelerates ovarian maturation, mainly through chemical cues.

Spontaneous rise in open rectangular channels under gravity.

Fluid movement in microfluidic devices, porous media, and textured surfaces involves coupled flows over the faces and corners of the media. Spontaneous wetting of simple grooved surfaces provides a model system to probe these flows. This numerical study investigates the spontaneous rise of a liquid in an array of open rectangular channels under gravity, using the Volume-of-Fluid method with adaptive mesh refinement.

Ice Layer Spreading along a Solid Substrate during Solidification of Supercooled Water: Experiments and Modeling.

The thermal influence of a solid wall on the solidification of a sessile supercooled water drop is experimentally investigated. The velocity of the initial ice layer propagating along the solid substrate prior to dendritic solidification is determined from videos captured using a high-speed video system. Experiments are performed for varying substrate materials and liquid supercooling.

Transient effects in ice nucleation of a water drop impacting onto a cold substrate.

The impact of water drops onto a solid surface at subfreezing temperatures has been experimentally studied. Drop nucleation has been observed using a high-speed video system. The statistics of nucleation allows the estimation of the average number of nucleation sites per unit area of the wetted part of the substrate.

Reynolds number influence on the formation of vortical structures on a pitching flat plate.

The impact of chord-based Reynolds number on the formation of leading-edge vortices (LEVs) on unsteady pitching flat plates is investigated. The influence of secondary flow structures on the shear layer feeding the LEV and the subsequent topological change at the leading edge as the result of viscous processes are demonstrated. Time-resolved velocity fields are measured using particle image velocimetry simultaneously in two fields of view to correlate local and global flow phenomena in order to identify unsteady boundary-layer separation and the subsequent flow structures.

Solidification of supercooled water in the vicinity of a solid wall.

An experimental approach utilizing a Hele-Shaw cell for the investigation of the solidification of a supercooled liquid in contact with a solid wall is presented. The setup is based on an idea presented by Marín et al. [A.