IMI course: Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics – How Inkjet Printing Really Works

Monday 21 to Tuesday 22 July, 2025

The Møller Institute, Cambridge

IMI Europe’s Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics course will follow the ink through the printhead, into droplet formation and onto landing on the substrate.

This advanced course relates the characteristics of droplet formation, ejection, landing and surface behaviour to the acoustics of the fluidics in the printhead. The course leader is Professor Emeritus Dr Frits Dijksman, University of Twente, Netherlands.

The aim of this course is to couple the characteristics of droplet formation and landing, spreading and permeation to the acoustics and microfluidics of the printhead. The knowledge conveyed during the course will enable the participants to analyse the behaviour of a wide variety of existing printheads and to support the development of new printheads and inks from a physics point of view.

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