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Film Control to Study Contributions of Waves to Droplet Impact Dynamics on Thin Flowing Liquid Films

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Drop Bouncing Dynamics on Ultrathin Films.

Ziwen He¹, Huy Tran¹, Min Y Pack¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97356, Waco, Texas 76798, United States.

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Drops impacting thin liquid films can bounce off with minimal volume loss. This "contact bouncing" occurs when the drop

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Area of Science:

Fluid Dynamics
Surface Science
Wettability Phenomena

Background:

Drop impact on surfaces typically leads to irreversible spreading.
Contact with a liquid surface requires interstitial fluid removal.
Previous research has not fully explored drop bouncing dynamics on thin films.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the phenomenon of
contact bouncing
where drops lift off liquid films after initial contact.
To characterize the dynamics of drop impacts on thin liquid films.
To determine the conditions under which drops can bounce with minimal volume loss.

Main Methods:

Experimental investigation of drop impacts on thin liquid films.
Utilizing high-speed interferometry to visualize interfacial gas layers.
Analyzing drop dynamics across a range of liquid film thicknesses (hL/D0 from 0.004 to 0.08) and Weber numbers.

Main Results:

Observed that drops can initiate contact and then completely lift off the substrate due to momentum.
Found that increased film deformability enhances gas entrainment but also accelerates gas purging.
Identified that contact during the gas film retraction stage enables bouncing with less than 5% volume loss.

Conclusions:

Contact bouncing is a viable phenomenon for drops impacting thin liquid films.
Film deformability and gas dynamics play critical roles in enabling drop bouncing.
This finding challenges conventional understanding of drop-surface interactions and opens new avenues for controlling liquid behavior.