Droplets rapidly changing into bubbles and enhanced turbulence caused by sandpaperA slowly vaporizing droplet, fully surrounded by a gel, will rapidly change into a bubble of the same size. A curved wall that has sand paper attached, shows more turbulent flow and drag than a smooth wall. Two results of fluid dynamics research projects of the University of Twente, but very different ones. They come together because Myrthe Bruning and Pieter Berghout, who are a couple, defend their PhD research on the same day, Friday 15 January. On top of that, their PhD theses are the 99th and the 100th of the Physics of Fluids group.Read more
In Memoriam: Kees SmoldersAs cluster, faculty, and university, we mourn the loss of Professor Kees Smolders, who passed away on 4 January 2021 at the age of 90. Kees was a true pioneer in the field of Membrane Technology. He worked as a full professor between 1969 and 1991 at the THT, renamed to UT in 1986. While he started out as a professor in Colloid and Interface Chemistry, he was one of the first in the Netherlands to focus on a new field: the field of membranes. He was unique in his persuasiveness, making many others, scientists and businesses alike, enthusiastic for a field of science that was very new at the time. He quickly became a leading scientist in this field, especially through his work on understanding phase inversion, an approach to produce a wide variety of polymeric membranes that still has a high number of citations to this day. Kees was one of the first professors to co-operate with companies actively. For example, he was actively involved in the start-up of X-flow in the eighties, helping UT to establish itself as the entrepreneurial university that it is today. Kees was an honorary member of the European Membrane Society and supervised nearly 40 PhD students. The research that he started more than 50 years ago is still actively continued within the current Membrane Science and Technology (MST) cluster.Read more
Droplets rapidly changing into bubbles and enhanced turbulence caused by sandpaper
In Memoriam: Kees Smolders
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