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Air entrainment during impact of droplets on liquid surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2013

Tuan Tran ,
Hélène de Maleprade ,
Chao Sun  and
Detlef Lohse
Tuan Tran*
Affiliation:
Physics of Fluids Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Hélène de Maleprade
Affiliation:
Département de Mécanique, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
Chao Sun*
Affiliation:
Physics of Fluids Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Detlef Lohse*
Affiliation:
Physics of Fluids Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
*
†Email addresses for correspondence: t.tran@utwente.nl, c.sun@utwente.nl, d.lohse@utwente.nl
†Email addresses for correspondence: t.tran@utwente.nl, c.sun@utwente.nl, d.lohse@utwente.nl
†Email addresses for correspondence: t.tran@utwente.nl, c.sun@utwente.nl, d.lohse@utwente.nl
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Abstract

We study drop impact on a deep pool of the same fluid, with an emphasis on the air layer trapped under the droplets from its formation to its rupture. The penetration velocity of the air layer at a very short time scale prior to its rupture is shown, using an energy argument and experimental verification, to be one-half of the impact velocity. We then deduce the dependence of the rupture position on the liquid viscosity and the impact velocity. We show that the volume of the resulting air bubbles can be related to both those resulting from droplets impacting on solid surfaces and those resulting from rigid spheres impacting on liquid surfaces.

JFM classification

Drops and Bubbles: Breakup/coalescence Drops and Bubbles: Drops and Bubbles Interfacial Flows (free surface): Thin films

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 726 , 10 July 2013 , R3
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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