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.

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 Probing the nanoscale: the first contact of an impacting drop

2015 ◽  
Vol 785 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Q. Li ◽  
I. U. Vakarelski ◽  
S. T. Thoroddsen
Keyword(s):  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Water Drop ◽  
Triple Line ◽  
Immiscible Liquid ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
High Speed Imaging ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Drop Impacts ◽  
First Contact

When a drop impacts onto a solid surface, the lubrication pressure in the air deforms its bottom into a dimple. This makes the initial contact with the substrate occur not at a point but along a ring, thereby entrapping a central disc of air. We use ultra-high-speed imaging, with 200 ns time resolution, to observe the structure of this first contact between the liquid and a smooth solid surface. For a water drop impacting onto regular glass we observe a ring of microbubbles, due to multiple initial contacts just before the formation of the fully wetted outer section. These contacts are spaced by a few microns and quickly grow in size until they meet, thereby leaving behind a ring of microbubbles marking the original air-disc diameter. On the other hand, no microbubbles are left behind when the drop impacts onto molecularly smooth mica sheets. We thereby conclude that the localized contacts are due to nanometric roughness of the glass surface, and the presence of the microbubbles can therefore distinguish between glass with 10 nm roughness and perfectly smooth glass. We contrast this entrapment topology with the initial contact of a drop impacting onto a film of extremely viscous immiscible liquid, where the initial contact appears to be continuous along the ring. Here, an azimuthal instability occurs during the rapid contraction at the triple line, also leaving behind microbubbles. For low impact velocities the nature of the initial contact changes to one initiated by ruptures of a thin lubricating air film.

DEWETTING AT THE CENTER OF A DROP IMPACT

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 361-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. THORODDSEN ◽  
K. TAKEHARA ◽  
T. G. ETOH
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Capillary Waves ◽  
Bottom Plate ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Wave Trough ◽  
Dry Patch ◽  
Axis Of Symmetry ◽  
Dry Spot ◽  
Drop Impacts

When a drop impacts onto a solid surface, it spreads out into a pancake shape and often forms a dry-spot at the center of the drop. We show that this dewetting at the center is sometimes produced by a small bubble of air which is entrapped on the substrate under the center of the drop. Capillary waves are generated on the surface of the pancake, during the rebounding of the lamellar edge. As these capillary waves converge at the axis of symmetry, their amplitude grows in size until a wave trough touches and merges with the entrapped bubble. This opens up a dry-patch at the center of the splash. We use state-of-the art high-speed video imaging to study this process, for a drop impacting onto a Perspex surface. The imaging is done by looking through the bottom plate to reveal the detailed motions of the capillary waves.

scholarly journals Time-resolved imaging of a compressible air disc under a drop impacting on a solid surface

2015 ◽  
Vol 780 ◽  
pp. 636-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Q. Li ◽  
S. T. Thoroddsen
Keyword(s):  
Solid Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Adiabatic Compression ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Time Resolved Imaging ◽  
Rapid Deceleration ◽  
Drop Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Surface Minima

When a drop impacts on a solid surface, its rapid deceleration is cushioned by a thin layer of air, which leads to the entrapment of a bubble under its centre. For large impact velocities the lubrication pressure in this air layer becomes large enough to compress the air. Herein we use high-speed interferometry, with 200 ns time-resolution, to directly observe the thickness evolution of the air layer during the entire bubble entrapment process. The initial disc radius and thickness shows excellent agreement with available theoretical models, based on adiabatic compression. For the largest impact velocities the air is compressed by as much as a factor of 14. Immediately following the contact, the air disc shows rapid vertical expansion. The radial speed of the surface minima just before contact, can reach 50 times the impact velocity of the drop.

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.

scholarly journals Singular jets during the collapse of drop-impact craters

2018 ◽  
Vol 848 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Thoroddsen ◽  
K. Takehara ◽  
H. D. Nguyen ◽  
T. G. Etoh
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Power Laws ◽  
Dimple Size ◽  
Inertial Focusing ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Extensional Stress ◽  
Volume Oscillation ◽  
Drop Impacts

When a drop impacts on a deep pool at moderate velocity it forms a hemispheric crater which subsequently rebounds to the original free-surface level, often forming Worthington jets, which rise vertically out of the crater centre. Under certain impact conditions the crater collapse forms a dimple at its bottom, which pinches off a bubble and is also known to be associated with the formation of a very fast thin jet. Herein we use two ultra-high-speed video cameras to observe simultaneously the dimple collapse and the speed of the resulting jet. The fastest fine jets are observed at speeds of approximately $50~\text{m}~\text{s}^{-1}$ and emerge when the dimple forms a cylinder which retracts without pinching off a bubble. We also identify what appears to be micro-bubbles at the bottom of this cylinder, which we propose are caused by local cavitation from extensional stress in the flow entering the jet. The radial collapse of the dimple does not follow capillary-inertial power laws nor is its bottom driven by a curvature singularity, as has been proposed in some earlier studies. The fastest jets are produced by pure inertial focusing and emerge at finite dimple size, bypassing the pinch-off singularity. These jets emerge from the liquid contained originally in the drop. Finally, we measure directly the compression of the central bubble following the pinch-off and the subsequent large volume oscillation, which occurs at frequencies slightly above the audible range at approximately 23 kHz.

scholarly journals Micro-bubble morphologies following drop impacts onto a pool surface

2012 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 469-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Thoroddsen ◽  
M.-J. Thoraval ◽  
K. Takehara ◽  
T. G. Etoh
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Viscous Liquids ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Pool Surface ◽  
Ultra High Speed ◽  
Micro Bubble ◽  
Drop Impacts ◽  
Air Film

AbstractWhen a drop impacts at low velocity onto a pool surface, a hemispheric air layer cushions and can delay direct contact. Herein we use ultra-high-speed video to study the rupture of this layer, to explain the resulting variety of observed distribution of bubbles. The size and distribution of micro-bubbles is determined by the number and location of the primary punctures. Isolated holes lead to the formation of bubble necklaces when the edges of two growing holes meet, whereas bubble nets are produced by regular shedding of micro-bubbles from a sawtooth edge instability. For the most viscous liquids the air film contracts more rapidly than the capillary–viscous velocity through repeated spontaneous ruptures of the edge. From the speed of hole opening and the total volume of micro-bubbles we conclude that the air sheet ruptures when its thickness approaches ${\ensuremath{\sim} }100~\mathrm{nm} $.

APPLICATION OF THE EARLY DAMAGE DIAGNOSTICS TECHNIQUE TO EXAMINATION OF THE AVIATION PANEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. E. Vasil’ev ◽  
Yu. G. Matvienko ◽  
A. V. Pankov ◽  
A. G. Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Video Data ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Damage Diagnostics ◽  
Subsurface Defect ◽  
Sensitive Coating ◽  
Early Damage

The results of using early damage diagnostics technique (developed in the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN) for detecting the latent damage of an aviation panel made of composite material upon bench tensile tests are presented. We have assessed the capabilities of the developed technique and software regarding damage detection at the early stage of panel loading in conditions of elastic strain of the material using brittle strain-sensitive coating and simultaneous crack detection in the coating with a high-speed video camera “Video-print” and acoustic emission system “A-Line 32D.” When revealing a subsurface defect (a notch of the middle stringer) of the aviation panel, the general concept of damage detection at the early stage of loading in conditions of elastic behavior of the material was also tested in the course of the experiment, as well as the software specially developed for cluster analysis and classification of detected location pulses along with the equipment and software for simultaneous recording of video data flows and arrays of acoustic emission (AE) data. Synchronous recording of video images and AE pulses ensured precise control of the cracking process in the brittle strain-sensitive coating (tensocoating)at all stages of the experiment, whereas the use of structural-phenomenological approach kept track of the main trends in damage accumulation at different structural levels and identify the sources of their origin when classifying recorded AE data arrays. The combined use of oxide tensocoatings and high-speed video recording synchronized with the AE control system, provide the possibility of definite determination of the subsurface defect, reveal the maximum principal strains in the area of crack formation, quantify them and identify the main sources of AE signals upon monitoring the state of the aviation panel under loading P = 90 kN, which is about 12% of the critical load.

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