Watch: Impaled Droplets
9 October 2022
Last update: 31/01/23 12:14
The Lutetium Project film a water droplet impacting on a superhydrophobic cone-shaped surface and the results are breathtaking. Research by Pierre Chantelot at the University of Twente. Interview with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford.
Featuring
‘Impaled droplets: On the breakup of drops impacting singularities’ doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2019.GFM.V0013
Gallery of Fluid Motion entry: youtube.com/watch?v=UAIFAi6a3Xo
Produced by Tom Crawford an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall
Publication: Pierre Chantelot, Ali Mazloomi Moqaddam, Anaïs Gauthier, Shyam S. Chikatamarla, Christophe Clanet, Ilya V. Karlin et David Quéré Water ring-bouncing on repellent singularities Soft Matter, 14, 2227-2223, 2018 xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=c7sm02004j
Experiment videos from the Lutetium Project: youtube.com/watch?v=MKtiRrkR-1g
Superhydrophobic surface simulation from William Thielicke: youtube.com/watch?v=HF4blivJQ6o
Pesticide video from Pesticidewise: youtube.com/watch?v=TenRNA_usxA
With thanks to The Lutetium Project Pierre Chantelot William Thielicke Pesticidewise JFM UK Fluid Network APS DFD 2019
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