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Conical focusing: mechanism for singular jetting from collapsing drop-impact craters

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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 958, Issue -, Pages -

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.1085

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drops and bubbles

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Fast microjets can be produced when drop-impact craters rebound or when a bubble bursts, and they play a crucial role in climate and olfactory senses as a source of aerosols. The most unique and fastest jets are generated when a small dimple forms at the crater bottom and rebounds without pinching off a small bubble. High-resolution numerical simulations reveal a new focusing mechanism that explains the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions observed in experiments of this phenomenon.
Fast microjets can emerge out of liquid pools from the rebounding of drop-impact craters, or when a bubble bursts at its surface. The fastest jets are the narrowest and are a source of aerosols both from the ocean and from a glass of champagne, of importance to climate and the olfactory senses. The most singular jets, which we observe experimentally at a maximum velocity of 137 +/- 4 m s(-1) and a diameter of 12 mu m, under reduced ambient pressure, are produced when a small dimple forms at the crater bottom and rebounds without pinching off a small bubble. The radial collapse and rebounding of this dimple is purely inertial, but highly sensitive to initial conditions. High-resolution numerical simulations reveal a new focusing mechanism, which drives the fastest jet within a converging conical channel, where an entrained air sheet provides effective slip at the outer boundary of the conically converging flow into the jet. This configuration bypasses any viscous cutoff of the jetting speed and explains the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions observed in detailed experiments of the phenomenon.

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