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The present work results from a three-year collaboration between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) and the University of Kyoto (Japan), which took place within the frame of International Marie Curie Fellowship. The dynamics of colloidal particles and fibers at a fluidic interface is of significant importance in various processes, one of which is the flotation process. It is widely used in the mineral industry for the selective separation of particles based on their affinity to rising gas bubbles. It is also one of the most common de-inking processes used to recover the paper fibers. In an attempt to develop numerical tools, which will find future applications in the flotation process, direct numerical simulations of particles, rigid and flexible fibers interacting with a drop were performed.