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Published on: February 17, 2019
On the collapse pressure of armored bubbles and drops
O Pitois1, M Buisson, X Chateau
1Laboratoire Navier, UMR 8205 CNRS - école des Ponts ParisTech - IFSTTAR, Université Paris Est, cité Descartes, 2 allée Kepler, 77420, Champs-sur-Marne, France, olivier.pitois@ifsttar.fr.
Abstract:
Drops and bubbles wrapped in dense monolayers of hydrophobic particles are known to sustain a significant decrease of their internal pressure. Through dedicated experiments we investigate the collapse behavior of such armored water drops as a function of the particle-to-drop size ratio in the range 0.02-0.2. We show that this parameter controls the behavior of the armor during the deflation: at small size ratios the drop shrinkage proceeds through the soft crumpling of the monolayer, at intermediate ratios the drop becomes faceted, and for the largest studied ratios the armor behaves like a granular arch. The results show that each of the three morphological regimes is characterized by an increasing magnitude of the collapse pressure. This increase is qualitatively modeled thanks to a mechanism involving out-of-plane deformations and particle disentanglement in the armor.
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