Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008njph...10d3034s&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 043034 (2008).
Physics
4
Scientific paper
Hot surfaces can cause levitation of small liquid droplets if the temperature is kept above the Leidenfrost point (220 °C for water) due to the pressure formed because of rapid evaporation. Here, we demonstrate a new class of pulsating gliding dynamic transitions in a special setting of the Leidenfrost effect at room temperatures and above a viscous fluid for droplets of liquid nitrogen. A whole range of highly dynamic patterns unfolds when droplets of liquid nitrogen are poured on the surface of another, more viscous liquid at room temperature. We also discovered that the levitating droplets induce vortex motion in the supporting viscous liquid. Depending on the viscosity of the supporting liquid, the nitrogen droplets either adopt an oscillating (pulsating) star-like shape with different azimuthal symmetries (from 2 9 petals) or glide on the surface with random trajectories. Thus, by varying the viscosity of the supporting liquid, we achieve controlled morphology and dynamics of Leidenfrost droplets.
Aranson Igor S.
Ben Jacob Eshel
Snezhko Alexey
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