Lay-language version of "Regular non-coarsening surface patterns on evaporating heated films"
Presented at the 61st APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in San Antonio
At 10:43 a.m. on Sunday, November 23, 2008 in Room 101B of the Gonzales Convention Center
Authors
Stephan Gekle,
Physics of Fluids,
University of Twente, The Netherlands
s.gekle@tnw.utwente.nl
Jose Manuel Gordillo
Area de Mecanica de Fluidos,
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Devaraj van der Meer
Physics of Fluids,
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Detlef Lohse
Physics of Fluids,
University of Twente, The Netherlands
To study the impact process in a very controlled fashion, we use a circular disc which is pulled through the liquid surface by a linear motor, allowing us to prescribe the impact speed and keep it constant throughout the experiment. High-speed video images taken at up to 30,000 frames per second illustrate the formation of the air cavity, its collapse, and the resulting jet formation. Accompanying computer simulations, which are shown to be in excellent agreement with the experimental images, allow us to study in detail the flows that create the high-speed liquid jet. It turns out that the inertial energy focusing during cavity collapse makes the present phenomenon reminiscent of the very violent jet of fluidized metal observed during the collapse of "lined cavities" in military and mining operations.
Fig. 1: The impact of a disc (a, b) entrains a giant bubble which upon collapse (c) forms a violent jet shooting upwards (d)
Fig. 2: Close up of the high-speed jet.
1. Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, The Netherlands
2. Grupo de Mecánica de Fluidos, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Correspondence: s.gekle@tnw.utwente.nl