2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Complex Fluids: Bubbles, Droplets, and Emulsions

This session will focus on flow and transport phenomena pertaining to bubbles, droplets, and emulsions.

Chair

Ryan Poling-Skutvik, University of Rhode Island

Co-Chair

Michael Loewenberg, Yale University

Presentations

08:00 AM

(646a) Dilatational Response of Soluble Asphaltene Nanoaggregate Clusters at the Oil-Water Interface
Nataira Pagan Pagan, Amanda Marciel

08:15 AM

(646b) Dynamic Evaporation: Sliding Film Evaporation for Rapid Solvent Removal from Microfluidic Emulsions
Owen Land, Amanda Hopkins, Daniel A. Hammer, Warren Seider, Daeyeon Lee

08:30 AM

(646c) Respiratory Droplet Formation in Bronchiolar Airways: The Role of Mucosalivary Fluid Rheology
Reihaneh Toutouni, Sima Asadi

08:45 AM

(646d) Oscillations of Slightly Viscous Liquid Drops Covered with a Monolayer of Insoluble Surfactant.
Osman A. Basaran, Hansol Wee

09:00 AM

(646e) Dimensionless Numbers Defining the Onset of Dispersed Phase Flow Transitions in Microfluidic Flow-Focusing Devices
Varun Potdar, Purushottam Soni, Jihye Kim, Stefan Baier, Michael Boehm, Siva Vanapalli

09:15 AM

(646f) Describing Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media Induced By Gas Permeation through a Membrane with Liquid Sweep: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiments
Robert DeJaco, Lloyd Lobo, Brandon Burghardt, Ryan M. Evans, Anthony J. Kearsley

09:30 AM

(646g) A Stress-Balance Based Critical Weber Number for Droplets and Bubbles
Supratim Sarkar Dipta, Krishnamurthy Ravichandar, R. Dennis Vigil, Rodney Fox, Michael G. Olsen

09:45 AM

(646h) Rheology of Dilute Emulsions of Surfactant-Covered Ferrofluid Droplets
Paulo Henrique Pimenta, Juan Linhares Barbosa, Rodrigo Reboucas, Taygoara Oliveira

10:00 AM

(646i) Field and Flow-Induced Dynamics of Droplets Covered with Ionic Surfactants
Juan Linhares Barbosa, Paulo Henrique Pimenta, Rodrigo Reboucas, Taygoara Oliveira

10:15 AM

(646j) Controllable Production of Smaller Microbubbles Via Optimizing the Operation Procedure and Structure of the Flow-Focusing Microchannel
Lin Sheng, Guangsheng Luo