Instability development of a viscous liquid drop impacting a smooth substrate

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2010-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2854v2

Phys. Rev. E 82, 025303(R), 2010

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.82.025303

We study the instability development during a viscous liquid drop impacting a smooth substrate, using high speed photography. The onset time of the instability highly depends on the surrounding air pressure and the liquid viscosity: it decreases with air pressure with the power of minus two, and increases linearly with the liquid viscosity. From the real-time dynamics measurements, we construct a model which compares the destabilizing stress from air with the stabilizing stress from liquid viscosity. Under this model, our experimental results indicate that at the instability onset time, the two stresses balance each other. This model also illustrates the different mechanisms for the inviscid and viscous regimes previously observed: the inviscid regime is stabilized by the surface tension and the viscous regime is stabilized by the liquid viscosity.

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