scholarly journals Gliding on a layer of air: impact of a large-viscosity drop on a liquid film

2019 ◽  
Vol 878 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Langley ◽  
S. T. Thoroddsen
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Impact Velocity ◽  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Compliant Surfaces ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Viscous Drop ◽  
Water Drops ◽  
Air Film

In this paper we contrast the early impact stage of a highly viscous drop onto a liquid versus a solid substrate. Water drops impacting at low velocities can rebound from a solid surface without contact. This dynamic is mediated through lubrication of a thin air layer between the liquid and solid. Drops can also rebound from a liquid surface, but only for low Weber numbers. Impacts at higher velocities in both cases lead to circular contacts which entrap an air disc under the centre of the drop. Increasing the drop viscosity produces extended air films for impacts on a smooth solid surface even for much larger velocities. These air films eventually break through random wetting contacts with the solid. Herein we use high-speed interferometry to study the extent and thickness profile of the air film for a large-viscosity drop impacting onto a viscous film of the same liquid. We demonstrate a unified scaling of the centreline height of the air film for impacts on both solid and liquid, when using the effective impact velocity. On the other hand, we show that the large-viscosity liquid film promotes air films of larger extent. Furthermore, the rupture behaviour becomes fundamentally different, with the air film between the two compliant surfaces being more stable, lacking the random wetting patches seen on the solid. We map the parameter range where these air films occur and explore the transition from gliding to ring contact at the edge of the drop dimple. After the air film ruptures, the initial contraction occurs very rapidly and for viscosities greater than 100 cSt the retraction velocity of the air film is ${\sim}0.3~\text{m}~\text{s}^{-1}$, independent of the liquid viscosity and impact velocity, in sharp contrast with theoretical predictions.

scholarly journals Air mediates the impact of a compliant hemisphere on a rigid smooth surface

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siqi Zheng ◽  
Sam Dillavou ◽  
John M. Kolinski
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Body ◽  
Elastic Properties ◽  
Impact Velocity ◽  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Smooth Surface ◽  
High Speed Imaging ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rigid Smooth

When a soft elastic body impacts upon a smooth solid surface, the intervening air fails to drain, deforming the impactor. High-speed imaging with the VFT reveal rich dynamics and sensitivity to the impactor's elastic properties and the impact velocity.

The coalescence and bouncing of water drops at an air/water interface

1964 ◽  
Vol 280 (1383) ◽  
pp. 545-565 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Velocity ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Circular Disk ◽  
Critical Fields ◽  
Minimum Thickness ◽  
Restoring Force ◽  
Drop Radius ◽  
Water Drops ◽  
Air Film

A detailed study has been made of the conditions under which uncharged water drops of radius 60 to 200 μm coalesce or rebound at a clean water/air interface. The variable para-­meters in the system are the drop radius, r , its impact velocity, V i , and the angle of impact, θ i ; and the dependent parameters are the time of contact, T , between a rebounding drop and the water surface, the velocity, V b , and the angle θ b with which it leaves the surface. All these have been measured. Relations are established between the drop radius and the critical values of V i and θ i at which coalescence occurs between uncharged drops and plane or convex water surfaces. Drops impacting at nearly normal incidence remain in contact with the surface for about 1 ms, lose about 95 % of their kinetic energy during impact, and rebound with an effective coefficient of restitution of about 0.2. Drops carrying a net charge and drops polarized in an applied electric field coalesce more readily than uncharged drops of the same size and impact velocity. The magnitudes of the critical charges and critical fields required to cause coalescence are determined as functions of V i , θ i and drop radius. Typically, drops of radius 150 μm impacting at 100 cm/s coalesce if the charge exceeds about 10 -4 e. s. u. or if the field exceeds about 100 V/cm. If the motion of a drop rebounding from a plane water surface is treated as simple harmonic and undamped, one may derive expressions for the depth of the crater, x and the restoring force, F , at any stage, and also for the time of contact. These yield values that are in reasonable accord with experiment. However, the collision is clearly inelastic, and a second solution is obtained when F is assumed to be proportional, not only to the displacement, x , but to x/t . This leads to a slightly different expression for the time of contact and to a calculated energy loss of 84 % compared with the measured value of 95 %. If the drop is to coalesce with the water surface, it must first expel and rupture the intervening air film. Treating the undersurface of the drop as a flattened circular disk, an expression is determined for the minimum thickness, δ, achieved by the film during the period of contact, in terms of V i , θ i and the drop radius r . This predicts values of δ ~ 0.1 μm below which fusion may well take place under the influence of van der Waals forces. Several features of the observed relations between V i , θ i and r are accounted for by this simplified theory, but the behaviour of drops impacting at nearly glancing incidence, and of relatively large, energetic drops impacting nearly normally is not. In the latter case, the observed distortion of the drop is thought to play an important role in permitting more rapid thinning of the air film and, in the case of charged and polarized drops, by producing intense local electric fields that may cause the final rupture.

Micro-splashing by drop impacts

2012 ◽  
Vol 706 ◽  
pp. 560-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Thoroddsen ◽  
K. Takehara ◽  
T. G. Etoh
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Liquid Sheet ◽  
Drop Surface ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Rain Drops ◽  
Drop Impacts

AbstractWe use ultra-high-speed video imaging to observe directly the earliest onset of prompt splashing when a drop impacts onto a smooth solid surface. We capture the start of the ejecta sheet travelling along the solid substrate and show how it breaks up immediately upon emergence from the underneath the drop. The resulting micro-droplets are much smaller and faster than previously reported and may have gone unobserved owing to their very small size and rapid ejection velocities, which approach 100 m s−1, for typical impact conditions of large rain drops. We propose a phenomenological mechanism which predicts the velocity and size distribution of the resulting microdroplets. We also observe azimuthal undulations which may help promote the earliest breakup of the ejecta. This instability occurs in the cusp in the free surface where the drop surface meets the radially ejected liquid sheet.

Precursor Film Formation Process Ahead Macroscopic Contact Line of Spreading Droplet on Smooth Substrate

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno ◽  
Kanji Hirose ◽  
Yusuke Kizaki ◽  
Yoshiaki Kisara ◽  
Yoshizumi Fukuhara
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Precursor Film ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Brewster Angle Microscopy ◽  
Droplet Spreading

The authors pay their special attention to formation process of wafer-thin liquid film, known as ‘precursor film,’ ahead moving macroscopic contact line of a droplet spreading on a solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of a visible boundary line so-called ‘macroscopic contact line.’ Existing studies have indicated there exits a thin liquid film known as ‘precursor film’ ahead the macroscopic contact line of the droplet. The present author’s group has dedicated their special effort to detect the formation process of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film. In the present study, existing length of the precursor film at a very early stage of the droplet spreading is evaluated by applying a Brewster-angle microscopy as well as the interferometer. The authors extend their attention to the advancing process of the precursor film on inclined substrate.

Numerical Study on High-Speed Impact Between a Water Droplet and a Deformable Solid Surface

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Han ◽  
Yonghui Xie ◽  
Di Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Solid Surface ◽  
Water Droplet ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Contact Radius ◽  
Deformable Solid ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Steam Turbine Blade ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

In this study an axisymmetric model is set up to study the impact of a spherical water droplet with a planar deformable solid surface using the Lagrange-Euler coupling method which is based on a penalty formulation. The diameter and velocity of the droplet are 0.4 mm and 500 m/s respectively, while the solid is a kind of steam turbine blade material. The generated pressure distribution in the droplet and its variation with time, the formation of lateral jet, the deformation and stress distribution in the solid are obtained and investigated. It is shown that the compressibility of the droplet and the solid plays a significant role during the impact. The water-hammer pressure and the maximum contact edge pressure are calculated and in good agreement with the existing theoretical predictions. The calculated contact radius for shock departure is larger than that of the conventional theoretical prediction, which is analyzed and attributable to the radial motion of the liquid in the compressed region. The formation of the high-speed lateral jet is calculated and the time for the observable jetting is much later than that of the shock departure. This delay is discussed and the reason needs more research. The pressure of the contact edge region remains highest even after a considerable time of shock departure and lateral jetting. In the mean time, a saucer-shaped depression is generated in the center of the impact. The stress waves in solid move faster even before shock departure in the liquid. This causes disturbance of the solid surface before the high-speed lateral jetting and provides site for the scouring action of it, and subsequently may cause material damage and erosion.

Explosion of Drops Impacting Non-Wetting Rigid Surfaces

1992 ◽  
Vol 296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence Zener ◽  
Dennis Prieve
Keyword(s):  
Impact Velocity ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Water Drops ◽  
Rigid Surfaces ◽  
The Impact

More than 100 years ago Worthington [1,2] reported his observations on drops exploding on impacting rigid surfaces they did not wet. Mercury was his favorite fluid, since mercury does not wet most solids. For water drops he had to especially “smoke” his surfaces to make them non-wetting. In his day high speed photography had not been developed, but he had learned to “stop” his falling drops by spark illumination. His drops had radii of typically 1 mm, fell from a height of ∼10 cm and ejected always an even number of spikes, typically ∼24. These spikes would shoot out from the impacted area at velocities several times higher than the impact velocity.

Gas-Assisted Droplet Impact on a Solid Surface

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres J. Diaz ◽  
Alfonso Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Droplet Deformation ◽  
Droplet Spreading ◽  
Carrier Gas ◽  
Air Jet ◽  
Vof Model ◽  
Theoretical Predictions

An experimental, numerical, and theoretical investigation of the behavior of a gas-assisted liquid droplet impacting on a solid surface is presented with the aim of determining the effects of a carrier gas on the droplet deformation dynamics. Experimentally, droplets were generated within a circular air jet for gas Reynolds numbers Reg = 0–2547. High-speed photography was used to capture the droplet deformation process, whereas the numerical analysis was conducted using the volume of fluid (VOF) model. The numerical and theoretical predictions showed that the contribution of a carrier gas to the droplet spreading becomes significant only at high Weo and when the work done by pressure forces is greater than 10% of the kinetic energy. Theoretical predictions of the maximum spreading diameter agree reasonably well with the experimental and numerical observations.

Precursor Film Formation Process Ahead Macroscopic Contact Line of Spreading Droplet on Smooth Substrate

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno ◽  
Kanji Hirose ◽  
Yusuke Kizaki ◽  
Yoshiaki Kisara ◽  
Yoshizumi Fukuhara
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Precursor Film ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Brewster Angle Microscopy ◽  
Droplet Spreading

The authors pay their special attention to formation process of wafer-thin liquid film, known as “precursor film,” ahead moving macroscopic contact line of a droplet spreading on a solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of a visible boundary line so-called “macroscopic contact line.” Existing studies have indicated there exits a thin liquid film known as precursor film ahead the macroscopic contact line of the droplet. The present author’s group has dedicated their special effort to detect the formation process of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film. In the present study, existing length of the precursor film at a very early stage of the droplet spreading is evaluated by applying a Brewster-angle microscopy as well as the interferometer. The authors extend their attention to the advancing process of the precursor film on inclined substrate.

scholarly journals Compressible air entrapment in high-speed drop impacts on solid surfaces

2013 ◽  
Vol 716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Peng Tan ◽  
Lei Xu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Viscous Drag ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Air Entrapment ◽  
Large Pressure ◽  
Drop Impacts ◽  
Air Film ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUsing high-speed photography coupled with optical interference, we experimentally study the air entrapment during a liquid drop impacting a solid substrate. We observe the formation of a compressed air film before the liquid touches the substrate, with internal pressure considerably higher than the atmospheric value. The degree of compression highly depends on the impact velocity, as explained by balancing the liquid deceleration with the large pressure of the compressed air. After contact, the air film expands vertically at the edge, reducing its pressure within a few tens of microseconds and producing a thick rim on the perimeter. This thick-rimmed air film subsequently contracts into an air bubble, governed by the complex interaction between surface tension, inertia and viscous drag. Such a process is universally observed for impacts above a few centimetres high.

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