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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.036101
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At the impact of a liquid droplet on a smooth surface heated above the liquid's boiling point, the droplet either immediately boils when it contacts the surface (contact boiling''), or without any surface contact forms a Leidenfrost vapor layer towards the hot surface and bounces back (gentle film boiling''), or both forms the Leidenfrost layer and ejects tiny droplets upward (spraying film boiling''). We experimentally determine conditions under which impact behaviors in each regime can be realized. We show that the dimensionless maximum spreading gamma of impacting droplets on the heated surfaces in both gentle and spraying film boiling regimes shows a universal scaling with the Weber numberWe (gamma similar to We(2/5)), which is much steeper than for the impact on nonheated (hydrophilic or hydrophobic) surfaces (gamma similar to We(1/4)). We also interferometrically measure the vapor thickness under the droplet.
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