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Controlling the partial coalescence of a droplet on a vertically vibrated bath
T Gilet1, N Vandewalle, S Dorbolo
1GRASP, Physics Department, University of Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
Abstract:
A method is proposed to stop the cascade of partial coalescences of a droplet laid on a liquid bath. The strategy consists of vibrating the bath in the vertical direction in order to keep small droplets bouncing. Since large droplets are not able to bounce, they partially coalesce until they reach a critical size. The system behaves as a low pass filter: droplets smaller than the critical size are selected. This size has been investigated as a function of the acceleration and the frequency of the bath vibration. Results suggest that the limit size for bouncing is related to the first mode of the droplet deformation.
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