Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar

Atmospheric aerosols usually consist of inorganic salts and organic substances, where a significant part is surfactants, that is, amphiphilic molecules containing a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic part. Due to their amphiphilic character, surfactants preferentially adsorb at the surface of liquids lowering the surface tension of the interfaces, thus affecting processes, such as droplet coalescence, development of precipitation and (ultimately) cloud lifetime.

We created a numerical model of cloud droplet formation with a presence of surfactant and salt. The model is based on the Lagrangian particle-based microphysics scheme Super-Droplet Method (SDM). By means of the SDM, we provided an evidence that surfactants influence cloud formation.

The seminar will be held on Zoom
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