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Laser impact on a drop

Fluid Dynamics 2016-05-10 v1

Abstract

The impact of a laser pulse on a highly absorbing liquid drop can lead to a violent response: the drop is accelerated, strongly deforms, and eventually fragments. Shock waves, the ejection of matter, and even plasma formation can accompany this process ...

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@article{arxiv.1605.02069,
  title  = {Laser impact on a drop},
  author = {Alexander L. Klein and Claas Willem Visser and Wilco Bouwhuis and Henri Lhuissier and Chao Sun and Jacco H. Snoeijer and Emmanuel Villermaux and Detlef Lohse and Hanneke Gelderblom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02069},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Submitted to Physics of Fluids as invited paper for winning the Milton van Dyke award 2014

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