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Preprints

The Liquid Utilisation Bottleneck in Interfacial Thermal Conductance

The Liquid Utilisation Bottleneck in Interfacial Thermal Conductance at Metal/Water Interfaces El-Rifai A, Merabia S, Hulikal Chakrapani T, Pillai R Submitted to International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2026) | Preprint

Journal Articles

2025

Contaminant Removal Using Vibrating Surfaces

[20] Contaminant Removal Using Vibrating Surfaces: Nanoscale Insights and a Universal Scaling Law Pillai R, Neilan D, Handel C, Datta S Nano Letters 25, 4284–4290 (2025) | DOI | Data

Spectral mechanisms of interfacial heat transfer with a meniscus

[19] Spectral mechanisms of solid/liquid interfacial heat transfer in the presence of a meniscus El-Rifai A, Klochko L, Mandrolko V, Perumanath S, Lacroix D, Pillai R, Isaiev M Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 27, 10185–10197 (2025) | DOI

Nanoscale surface effects on heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation

[18] Nanoscale surface effects on heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation Sullivan P, Dockar D, Pillai R The Journal of Chemical Physics 162, 184501 (2025) | DOI | Data

Vibration-induced heterogeneous ice nucleation

[17] Nanoscale insights into vibration-induced heterogeneous ice nucleation Chen P, Pillai R, Datta S Nanoscale 17, 14172 (2025) | DOI | Data

2024

Regimes of interfacial thermal conductance at a solid-liquid interface

[16] Unraveling the Regimes of Interfacial Thermal Conductance at a Solid/Liquid Interface El-Rifai A, Perumanath S, Borg MK, Pillai R The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128, 8408–8417 (2024) | DOI | Data

2023

Surface wettability and the growth of vapour bubbles

[15] The role of surface wettability on the growth of vapour bubbles Sullivan P, Dockar D, Enright R, Borg MK, Pillai R International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 217, 124657 (2023) | DOI | Data

Rolling and sliding modes of nanodroplet spreading

[14] Rolling and Sliding Modes of Nanodroplet Spreading: Molecular Simulations and a Continuum Approach Perumanath S, Chubynsky MV, Pillai R, Borg MK, Sprittles JE Physical Review Letters 131, 164001 (2023) | DOI | Data

Contaminant removal from self-cleaning surfaces

[13] Contaminant Removal from Nature’s Self-Cleaning Surfaces Perumanath S, Pillai R, Borg MK Nano Letters 23, 4234–4241 (2023) | DOI | Data

2022

Inertio-thermal vapour bubble growth

[12] Inertio-thermal vapour bubble growth Sullivan P, Dockar D, Borg MK, Enright R, Pillai R Journal of Fluid Mechanics 948, A55 (2022) | DOI | Data

2021

Acoustothermal nucleation of surface nanobubbles

[11] Acoustothermal Nucleation of Surface Nanobubbles Datta S, Pillai R, Borg MK, Sefiane K Nano Letters 21, 1267–1273 (2021) | DOI

Water transport in boron nitride nanotubes

[10] Untangling the physics of water transport in boron nitride nanotubes Mistry S, Pillai R, Mattia D, Borg MK Nanoscale 13, 18096–18102 (2021) | DOI | Data

Surface nanostructure and wettability effects on interfacial ice physics

[9] Impact of surface nanostructure and wettability on interfacial ice physics Nikiforidis V-M, Datta S, Borg MK, Pillai R The Journal of Chemical Physics 155, 234307 (2021) | DOI | Data

2020

Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

[8] Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo using a general and high-performance code coupling library Longshaw SL, Emerson DR, Pillai R, Gibelli L, Lockerby DA Computers & Fluids 213, 104726 (2020) | DOI

2018

Dynamics of nanodroplets on vibrating surfaces

[7] Dynamics of Nanodroplets on Vibrating Surfaces Pillai R, Borg MK, Reese JM Langmuir 34, 11898–11904 (2018) | DOI | Data

Acoustothermal atomization of water nanofilms

[6] Acoustothermal Atomization of Water Nanofilms Pillai R, Borg MK, Reese JM Physical Review Letters 121, 104502 (2018) | DOI | Data

2017

Electrophoretically mediated partial coalescence of a charged microdrop

[5] Electrophoretically mediated partial coalescence of a charged microdrop Pillai R, Berry JD, Harvie DJE, Davidson MR Chemical Engineering Science 169, 28–45 (2017) | DOI

2016

Electrohydrodynamic deformation and interaction of microscale drop pairs

[4] Electrohydrodynamic Deformation and Interaction of Microscale Drop Pairs Pillai R, Berry JD, Harvie DJE, Davidson MR International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements 4, 33–41 (2016) | DOI

Two-fluid flow of electrolyte solution with charged deforming interfaces

[3] Numerical simulation of two-fluid flow of electrolyte solution with charged deforming interfaces Davidson MR, Berry JD, Pillai R, Harvie DJE Applied Mathematical Modelling 40, 1989–2001 (2016) | DOI

Electrokinetics of isolated electrified drops

[2] Electrokinetics of isolated electrified drops Pillai R, Berry JD, Harvie DJE, Davidson MR Soft Matter 12, 3310–3325 (2016) | DOI

2015

Electrolytic drops in an electric field: drop deformation and breakup

[1] Electrolytic drops in an electric field: A numerical study of drop deformation and breakup Pillai R, Berry JD, Harvie DJE, Davidson MR Physical Review E 92, 013007 (2015) | DOI

Book Chapters

On the Development of Icephobic Surfaces

On the Development of Icephobic Surfaces: Bridging Experiments and Simulations Tagliaro I, Cerpelloni A, Nikiforidis VM, Pillai R, Antonini C In: Marengo M, De Coninck J (eds) The Surface Wettability Effect on Phase Change, Springer, Cham, pp. 235–272 (2022) | DOI

Thesis

Stretching, bursting, splashing and bouncing: Electrohydrodynamics of microfluidic drops Pillai R PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne (2017)