Journal
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 708, Issue -, Pages 469-479Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.319
Keywords
breakup/coalescence; drops; thin films
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- KAUST-Berkeley AEA
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When a drop impacts at low velocity onto a pool surface, a hemispheric air layer cushions and can delay direct contact. Herein we use ultra-high-speed video to study the rupture of this layer, to explain the resulting variety of observed distribution of bubbles. The size and distribution of micro-bubbles is determined by the number and location of the primary punctures. Isolated holes lead to the formation of bubble necklaces when the edges of two growing holes meet, whereas bubble nets are produced by regular shedding of micro-bubbles from a sawtooth edge instability. For the most viscous liquids the air film contracts more rapidly than the capillary-viscous velocity through repeated spontaneous ruptures of the edge. From the speed of hole opening and the total volume of micro-bubbles we conclude that the air sheet ruptures when its thickness approaches similar to 100 nm.
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