Publications

Engineering Sciences

Coalescence of surfactant-laden droplets

Droplet coalescence is an important process in nature and various technologies (e.g., inkjet printing). Here, we unveil the surfactant mass transport mechanism and report on several major differences in the coalescence of surfactant-laden droplets…

Soheil Arbabi, Piotr Deuar, Mateusz Denys, Rachid Bennacer, Zhizhao Che, Panagiotis Theodorakis

Physics of Fluids - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Materials for energy harvesting, conversion, storage, environmental engineering and sustainability

Mohamed El Jouad, Mohammed El Ganaoui, Rachid Bennacer, Jean-Michel Nunzi

European Physical Journal: Applied Physics - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Experimental study on the effects of a moving sun patch on heating radiant slabs: The issue of occupants’ thermal comfort

Tianying Li, Abdelatif Merabtine, Mohammed Lachi, Rachid Bennacer, Julien Kauffmann

Solar Energy - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Two dimensional numerical simulations of a free-falling liquid gallium droplet in quiescent water

K. Sefiane, M.S. Bin Mohamad, R. Bennacer

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics - 2023

Material chemistry

Role and Effect of Meso-Structuring Surfactants on Properties and Formation Mechanism of Microfluidic-Enabled Mesoporous Silica Microspheres

We have shown in a previous work that the combination of the emulsion solvent evaporation technique and droplet-based microfluidics allows for the synthesis of well-defined monodisperse mesoporous silica microcapsules (hollow microspheres), whose…

Nizar Bchellaoui, Qisheng Xu, Xuming Zhang, El-Eulmi Bendeif, Rachid Bennacer, Abdel El Abed

Micromachines - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Impact of Radiation and Slip on Newtonian Liquid Flow Past a Porous Stretching/Shrinking Sheet in the Presence of Carbon Nanotubes

U. S. Mahabaleshwar, T. Anusha, M. El Ganaoui, R. Bennacer

Fluid Dynamic and Material Process - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Analysis of the Heat Transfer in Electronic Radiator Filled with Metal Foam

The performance of an electronic radiator filled with metal foam with a porosity of 96% was studied. The effect of the factors including the flow rates, the pores per linear inch (PPI) and the numbers of fins was analyzed. The results show that the…

Xiaofang Shan, Bin Liu, Zongsheng Zhu, Rachid Bennacer, Rounan Wang, Panagiotis Theodorakis

Energies - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Estimation of the drying process in porous media using the parallel and series moitrue transfer model

Moisture transfer is a very common phenomenon in a wide range of engineering fields, such as civil engineering (cement-based constructions), food processing, mining and soil penetration, drying and imbibition of porous media (including phase change…

Xiaoyan Ma, Rachid Bennacer, Farid Benboudjema, Longfei Chen

European Physical Journal: Applied Physics - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Wear properties of titanium microalloying carbidic austempered ductile iron and refining mechanism of TiC on M3C

Penghui Yang, Rong Wang, Hanguang Fu, Rafik Absi, Rachid Bennacer, Xuhui Yang, Peiqing La

Wear - 2023

Mechanics

Numerical simulations of concrete specimens with the gradient-enhanced Eikonal non-local damage model

ccurately predicting the response of structures subjected to complex loadings is a challeng-ing task in civil engineering. In particular, studying cracking nucleation and propagation is essential to as-sess structural performances. Quasi-brittle…

Breno RIBEIRO NOGUEIRA, Giuseppe Rastiello, Cédric Giry, Fabrice Gatuingt, Carlo Callari

Academic Journal of Civil Engineering - 2023