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Fast Imaging Technique to Study Drop Impact Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Fluids
Published on: March 5, 2014
Dense suspension splat: monolayer spreading and hole formation after impact
Luuk A Lubbers1, Qin Xu2, Sam Wilken2
1James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA and Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We use experiments and minimal numerical models to investigate the rapidly expanding monolayer formed by the impact of a dense suspension drop against a smooth solid surface. The expansion creates a lacelike pattern of particle clusters separated by particle-free regions. Both the expansion and the development of the spatial inhomogeneity are dominated by particle inertia and, therefore, are robust and insensitive to details of the surface wetting, capillarity, and viscous drag.
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