Pisa, May 11–13, 2026
Organiser: Paolo Di Marco
List of papers presented
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Nucleate Boiling of Water in Microgravity: Results from the 86th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign and Comparison with the RUBI Experiment
L. Brandler, J. Kind, A. Sielaff, and P. Stephan
Bubble growth and detachment in nucleate boiling conditions
Luc Favre, Michel Lebon, Yohann Jaunet, Md Qaisar Raza, Modou Mbaye, Julien Sebilleau, Catherine Colin
Bubble growth induced by cavitation in microgravity
Annafederica Urbano, Maxence Deferrez, Sébastien Tanguy, Catherine Colin
Effect of Surfactant Dynamics on Bubble Formation at an Orifice and Downstream Bubble Properties from a Gas Distributor
Sandra Orvalho, Maria Zednikova, Pavlina Basarova, Vladislav Shirokov
Modeling of convective heat-transfer around an elongated bubble
Botticini P., Picchi D., Poesio P.
AURIGA “Unveiling the Riddles of Gas-Liquid Fluid Dynamics: Towards Novel Carbone Dioxide Absorption Systems” project: current status and perspectives
Giorgio Besagni
Interaction between a submerged jet and a free surface
Francesco Zonta and Simone Di Giorgio
Countercurrent flow of rising vapor bubbles in evaporating downward subcooled liquid flow with an upper manifold open to the atmosphere
Maor Hai Avnaim, Ron Rene Hayat, Dvora Barnea and Yehuda Taitel
Long flexible fibers: A proxy for microplastics in turbulence
Darish Jeswin Dhas Sam, Cristian Marchioli
Semi-analytical solution for heat diffusion limited bubble growth in a finite initial superheated liquid layer
Mattia Bucci, Matevz Zupancic, Iztok Golobic
Experimental study on pool boiling performance of various dielectric fluids on a smooth aluminum surface
I. Marchi, A. I. Garivalis, L. Scateni, S. Filippeschi, P. Di Marco
Additively Manufactured Shape Memory Alloy Surfaces for Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer in Normal and Reduced Gravity
Irene Marchi, Alekos I. Garivalis, Ehsan Marzban Shirkharkolaei, Mahshid Memarian, Shirin Dehgahi, Davoud Jafari and Paolo Di Marco
Exploring the Potential of Cold Spray Metal Additive Manufacturing for Enhanced Pool Boiling
A. J. Robinson and R. Lupoi
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Bubbles and drop breakage in turbulence
Alfredo Soldati
Dissipation in modelling of complex two-phase flows
Dariusz Mikielewicz
Two-Phase Flow Phenomena in Free-spanning Sections of Gas transportation pipelines
Amos Ullmann and Neima Brauner
Capillary-Driven Evaporation in Porous Structures
Michael Gibbons
Air-Cooled Pulsating Heat Pipe: Thermal Performance
John Thome
Physically based simulations of flow boiling for nuclear thermal hydraulics applications: insights and perspectives of ongoing work at microscale and component-scale
Giovanni Giustini
CERN R&D on sub-critical and super-critical CO2 flows in small pipes for advanced electronics cooling
Paolo Petagna
On the dynamics of liquid/vapor phase change
Mirko Gallo, Filippo Occhioni, Riccardo Daniele, Carlo Massimo Casciola
Numerical simulations of boiling flows using the conservative diffuse interface method
Luca Brandt
Interaction Between Evaporation and Forced Dewetting of a Volatile Liquid
Peter Stephan
Mass Transfer from the Perspective of a Bubble on its Trajectory
Michael Schlüter, Lotta Kursula, Christian Weiland
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Progress in low-pressure pool boiling studies on horizontal tube bundles: from bubble dynamics to heat transfer characterization
Dominika Kaczmarek-Piastka, Tomasz Hałon, Bartosz Zajaczkowski
Effect of honeycomb structures on saturated water pool boiling heat transfer
Chiara Falsetti, Shoji Mori
Direct Numerical Simulation of Pool Boiling on Surfaces Textured with Micro-pillars
Mirco Magnini
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From Nucleation to Shedding: Dropwise Condensation and Dew Formation on Grass
Sepideh Khodaparast
Effects of bubble clustering and turbulence on the bubble rise velocity
Dirk Lucas, Hendrik Hessenkemper, Tian Ma
Microlayer evaporation at bubble growth in nucleate pool boiling
C. Le Houedec, B. Zajec, C. Tecchio, P. Roca i Cabarrocas, P. Bulkin, V. Nikolayev
Bubble and droplet breakup after interaction with a vortex ring
Maria Zednikova, Maria Pracharova, Tereza Semlerova
Thermo-Fluid Dynamics of Laser-Irradiated Droplet Using a Fully Coupled Optics-CFD Approach
Manolis Gavaises
Influence of coalescence dynamics on dropwise condensation heat transfer: experimental investigation and numerical simulation
M. Tancon, L. Fusina, A. Abbatecola, S. Bortolin and D. Del Col
A statistical methodological framework for development and validation of ANN models for flow boiling heat transfer coefficient prediction within micro-fin tubes
R. Mastrullo, A. W. Mauro, A. F. Passarelli, F. Pelella and L. Viscito