Droplet Impact On Deep Liquid Pools: Rayleigh Jet To Formation Of Secondary Droplets

Abstract

The impact of droplets on a deep pool has applications in cleaning up oil spills, spray cooling, painting, inkjet printing, and forensic analysis, relying on the changes in properties such as viscosity, interfacial tension, and density. Despite the exhaustive research on different aspects of droplet impact, it is not clear how liquid properties can affect the instabilities leading to Rayleigh jet breakup and number of daughter drops formed after its pinch-off. In this article, through systematic experiments we investigate the droplet impact phenomena by varying viscosity and surface tension of liquids as well as impact speeds. Further, using numerical simulations, we show that Rayleigh-Plateau instability is influenced by these parameters, and capillary time scale is the appropriate scale to normalize the breakup time. Based on Ohnesorge number (Oh) and impact Weber number (We), a regime map for no breakup, Rayleigh jet breakup, and crown splash is suggested. Interestingly, crown splash is observed to occur at all Ohnesorge numbers; however, at high Oh, a large portion of kinetic energy is dissipated, and thus the Rayleigh jet is suppressed regardless of high impact velocity. The normalized required time for the Rayleigh jet to reach its peak varies linearly with the critical height of the jet.

Publication Date

11-30-2015

Publication Title

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volume

92

Issue

5

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.053022

Socpus ID

84949267385 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84949267385

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