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2026

February

• Dixit, A. K., Zhao, C., Zaleski, S., Lohse, D., & Sanjay, V. Holes in Sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films. Phys. Rev. Lett., 136, 084001 (2026).

• Ayush Dixit presents "Simulating Respiratory Droplet Formation: The Role of Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics," showing via large-scale simulations that viscoelastic respiratory-fluid effects are essential for accurate droplet-size predictions in airborne transmission models. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP5K9i8ah8

January

• Díaz, D., Bhargava, A. S., Walz, F., Sharifi, A., Summaly, S., Berger, R., Kappl, M., Butt, H.-J., Lohse, D., Willers, T., Sanjay, V., & Vollmer, D. Stood-up Drop to Determine Receding Contact Angles. Soft Matter, 22, 657-667 (2026).

2025

CoMPhy Lab is Moving to Durham University!

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Starting July 1st, 2025, the CoMPhy Lab will be relocating to Durham University, UK. We are excited to join the Condensed Matter Physics section in the Department of Physics and continue our research in computational physics and fluid dynamics in our new home.

December

• Demirkır, Ç., Yang, R., Bashkatov, A., Sanjay, V., Lohse, D., & Krug, D. To jump or not to jump: Adhesion and viscous dissipation dictate the detachment of coalescing wall-attached bubbles. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 10, 123602 (2025).

November

• Jnandeep Talukdar won the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 2025 for his master's thesis on fundamental research in droplet formation. Thesis: Singularities with Surfactants

September

• Saini, M., Sanjay, V., Saade, Y., Lohse, D., & Popinet, S. Implementation of integral surface tension formulations in a volume of fluid framework and their applications to Marangoni flows. J. Comput. Phys., 542, 114348 (2025).

August

• Mclauchlan, J., Walker, J. S., Sanjay, V., Jalaal, M., Reid, J. P., Squires, A. M., & Souslov, A. Bouncing microdroplets on hydrophobic surfaces. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 122, e2507309122 (2025).

July

• Saumili Jana received the award for best master's thesis from IIT Kharagpur. Thesis: Retract or Collapse? The Role of Viscosity and Viscoelasticity on Bubble Dynamics