Bio

Facundo Cabrera-Booman is a Fellow in the Center for Turbulence Research in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. His research interests include wall turbulence at high Reynolds number on rough and smooth surfaces, Lagrangian dynamics of inertial particles in turbulent and quiescent flows, and droplet dynamics.

Professional Education

  • PhD, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Physics (2021)
  • MS, University of Buenos Aires, Physics (2018)
  • BS, University of Buenos Aires, Physics (2017)

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    facundo@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Mechanical Engineering Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

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  • Droplet jump from a particle bed. Soft matter Cardin, K., Cabrera-Booman, F., Cal, R. B. 2024; 20 (13): 2887-2891

    Abstract

    Drop tower experiments have been performed to study droplet jump from a particle bed across a wide range of fluid viscosities. Here the droplet jumps from the particle bed in response to the apparent step reduction from terrestrial gravity to microgravity when the experiment is dropped and enters free fall. The presence of a particle layer has been found to affect contact line dissipation and the overall jumping behavior of droplets. Additionally, the study has identified the impact of the Ohnesorge number (Oh) on droplet morphology. The investigation has yielded results that not only validate a modified version of the spring-mass-damper model for droplet rebound [Jha et al., Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 7270] but also extend its applicability to previously unexplored initial conditions. In particular, the model predicts droplet jump time and velocity. Moreover, the presence of particle layers has been found to effectively eliminate contact line dissipation without introducing substantial additional forms of dissipation. Experiments have been conducted at the Dryden Drop Tower facility at Portland State University. Particle beds have been constructed using polyethylene and polystyrene poly-dispersed spheres with diameters ranging from 125-150 μm and 600-1000 μm, respectively. The beds have been created by depositing a thin layer of particles on a glass substrate. The experimental conditions have allowed the exploration of a large parameter space of Bo0 1.8-8.6, We 0.05-1.40, and Oh 0.001-1.900.

    View details for DOI 10.1039/d3sm01501g

    View details for PubMedID 38421305

  • Path instabilities and drag in the settling of single spheres INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW Cabrera-Booman, F., Plihon, N., Bourgoin, M. 2024; 171

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2023.104664

    View details for Web of Science ID 001110776800001

  • Experimental validation of fluid inertia models for a cylinder settling in a quiescent flow PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS Cabrera, F., Sheikh, M. Z., Mehlig, B., Plihon, N., Bourgoin, M., Pumir, A., Naso, A. 2022; 7 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.024301

    View details for Web of Science ID 000752865200001

  • Design, construction and validation of an instrumented particle for the Lagrangian characterization of flows Application to gravity wave turbulence EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS Cabrera, F., Cobelli, P. J. 2021; 62 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s00348-020-03121-3

    View details for Web of Science ID 000609431400005

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