Research

Drops with phase change

We study the phase change heat transfer of drops attached to a cold plate

T. V. Vu, “Fully resolved simulations of drop solidification under forced convection,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, vol. 122, pp. 252–263, Feb. 2018.
T. V. Vu, “Deformation and breakup of a pendant drop with solidification,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, vol. 122, pp. 341–353, Feb. 2018.
T. V. Vu, C. T. Nguyen, and D. T. Khanh, “Direct numerical study of a molten metal drop solidifying on a cold plate with different wettability,” Metals, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 47, Jan. 2018 .
T. V. Vu, G. Tryggvason, S. Homma, and J. C. Wells, “Numerical investigations of drop solidification on a cold plate in the presence of volume change,” Int. J. Multiphase Flow, vol. 76, pp. 73–85, Nov. 2015

We study the formation and breakup of liquid jets

T. V. Vu, S. Homma, G. Tryggvason, J. C. Wells, and H. Takakura, “Computations of breakup modes in laminar compound liquid jets in a coflowing fluid,” Int. J. Multiphase Flow, vol. 49, pp. 58–69, Mar. 2013
T. V. Vu, J. C. Wells, H. Takakura, S. Homma, and G. Tryggvason, “Numerical calculations of pattern formation of compound drops detaching from a compound jet in a co-flowing immiscible fluid,” J. Chem. Eng. Jpn., vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 721–726, Aug. 2012

We study the deformation and breakup of drops in micro-channels

T. V. Vu, L. V. Vu, B. D. Pham, and Q. H. Luu, “Numerical investigation of dynamic behavior of a compound drop in shear flow,” J. Mech. Sci. Technol., vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 2111–2117, May 2018

We study the formation and breakup of hollow jets

T. V. Vu, H. Takakura, J. C. Wells, and T. Minemoto, “Breakup modes of a laminar hollow water jet,” J. Vis., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 307–309, May 2011.