@marca-be.bsky.social
Physicist by formation and by everyday-renewed-state, FNRS, Université de Liège, CESAM, PtYX.
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11.02.2026 07:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Capillary forces produce levitation
02.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0David during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
David during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Detlef during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Day 1 recap at #LeidenForce Winter School:
David Quéré @espciparispsl.bsky.social : overview of Leidenfrost regimes and phenomena.
Detlef Lohse @utwente.bsky.social : Leidenfrost impacts, jet formation, impact phases & key parameters.
#Leidenfrost #WinterSchool #FluidDynamics #DropletImpact #Physics
Vahid during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Maxim during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Lorena during her talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Day 1 closed with #PhD talks:
🔸Vahid Taheri @ntnu-iss.bsky.social – Thermal Two-Phase Flow Laboratory
🔸Maxim de Wildt @utwente.bsky.social – Physics of Fluids Group.
🔸Lorena V. Garcia - Institut Lumière Matière @cnrs.fr – UCBL
More today 🚀
#WinterSchool #FluidDynamics #Leidenfrost #Research
Detlef during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Detlef during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School
Lecture by Detlef Lohse @utwente.bsky.social on the dynamics of drops and Leidenfrost drops, highlighting the richness and complexity of droplet impacts.
➡️ www.leidenforce.eu/partners
#LeidenfrostEffect #FluidDynamics #DropImpact #Research
Dominique during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Dominique during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Dominique during his talk at LeidenForce Winter school
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente.bsky.social : Dominique Legendre (IMFT) on numerical modeling of moving contact lines, linking microscopic mechanisms to macroscopic spreading laws via CFD (VoF).
🔗 www.leidenforce.eu/partners
#Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #CFD #NumericalSimulation
Slide from Benjamin's presentation at the LeidenForce Winter School
Slide from Benjamin's presentation at the LeidenForce Winter School
Slide from Benjamin's presentation at the LeidenForce Winter School
Day 2 #LeidenForce Winter School @utwente.bsky.social :
Benjamin Sobac (@cnrs.fr – UPPA, LFCR) on Leidenfrost drops—> shape & levitation, dynamics, take-off vs explosion, and substrate effects.
#Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidDynamics
Maria during her lecture
Maria during her lecture
Jacco during his lecture
Jacco during his lecture
Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School morning:
Maria Fernandino @ntnu-iss.bsky.social on modeling approaches for evaporation & the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg framework.
Jacco Snoeijer @utwente.bsky.social on lubrication, Landau–Levich theory & #Leidenfrost physics.
#MultiphaseFlows #SoftMatter #CFD
Christian during his lecture
Christian during his lecture
Benoit during his lecture
Benoit during his lecture
Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School afternoon:
🔸Benoît Scheid @ulbruxelles.bsky.social > antibubbles & heat/mass transfer toward encapsulated Leidenfrost droplets
🔸Christian Diddens @utwente.bsky.social > sharp-interface finite element simulations for #Leidenfrost droplets
#MultiphaseFlows #Physics
Resort Bad Boekelo under the snow
Resort Bad Boekelo under the snow
Day 4 and final day of the #LeidenForce Winter School starts under the snow ❄️ Resort Bad Boekelo turned into a winter postcard.
#WinterSchool #SnowDay #ResearchLife
Apurav during his talk
Gauri during her talk
29.01.2026 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Pablo during his talk
Mélanie during her talk
Cheikh during his talk
Tristan during his talk
PhD talks at #LeidenForce Winter School (D2–3):
A. Tambe - Univ. of Waterloo), G. Patki @universitedeliege.bsky.social & @univlille.bsky.social, PG Gonzalez & M. Bulois @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, CT Dioum (Univ. of Liège), T. Simon @cnrs.fr Saint-Gobain
#Leidenfrost #PhDLife #FluidMechanics
Tomas during his talk
Aymeric during his talk
Senthil during his talk
Day 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon @istaresearch.bsky.social – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc) & Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan from @ulbruxelles.bsky.social TIPS Lab, shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.
#Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics
David during his lecture
Alexis during his lecture
Alexis during his lecture
David during his lecture
Day 4 – last lectures at #LeidenForce Winter School: David Paulovics @utwente.bsky.social on impinging #Leidenfrost jets, Alexis Duchesne @univlille.bsky.social on levitated liquid tori & star-shaped drops. Experiments & curiosity!
#DropletPhysics #FluidMechanics #PhysicsExperiments #LabLife
Stéphane is presenting a race between Leidenfrost droplets at various temperatures
Stéphane is presenting a Leidenfrost experiment with a red balloon
Stéphane is presenting the LeidenForce Work Packages
Day 2 #LeidenForce #WinterSchool
Opening lecture by @marca-be.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social on the consortium & WP.
History, #Leidenfrost mechanisms, and original experiments including a Leidenfrost droplet race.
🔗To learn more: www.leidenforce.eu/partners
#FluidDynamics #Research
Un slide que j'aime bien montrer
16.01.2026 09:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Le problème est de penser qu il n y a qu un problème
08.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On ne sait pas trop ce que "comprendre" signifie. Le travail de recherche est confronté à deux problèmes.
(1) On ne sait pas ce que l'on doit chercher.
(2) Malgré (1), on trouve.
A ce jour, de ce que je comprends. On ne sait pas ce que veut dire "comprendre". Problème 1: On ne sait pas vraiment ce que l'on cherche. Problème 2 (plus préoccupant): On trouve des trucs.
19.12.2025 16:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#catharsis prière de ne pas commenter 😄😁😆😅
16.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A few second after: "Thank you. It is time for my pot-de-these"
11.12.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A few second before : "The jury is now invited to ask questions to the candidate"
11.12.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Faut-il arrêter de prendre l'avion quand on est scientifique ? Je vous dis mes POUR, mes CONTRE, et mon avis finalement. Et j'attends le votre dans les commentaires !
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Gauri Patki, new DC at LeidenForce
Welcome Gauri Patki (DC#4) to #LeidenForce!
She will study #LeidenfrostJets at @laboratoire-iemn.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social PtYX.
PI: @leduke21.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social
+ @airbus.com secondment.
www.leidenforce.eu/welcomegaurinews
#FluidDynamics
My thesis advisor, M. Ausloos, passes away. Nobody could expect better scientific guide.
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"So where do physicists end up? Surprise: Physicists can do—and actually do—(almost) anything"
#Physicist #Career #FromPhysicsToAnything #EverythingIsPossible
Picture of Mélanie Bulois, new DC in the LeidenForce project
Welcome Mélanie Bulois DC#10 to #LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the #LeidenfrostEffect in multiphase #microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Benoit Scheid + secondment @universiteuppa.bsky.social
🔗 www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelan...