Water spring: a model for bouncing drops
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
It has been shown that a water drop can bounce persistently, when thrown on a super-hydrophobic substrate. We present here scaling arguments which allow us to predict the maximal deformation and the contact time of the drop. This approach is completed by a model describing the flow inside the drop, and by original experimental data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212151,
title = {Water spring: a model for bouncing drops},
author = {K. Okumura and F. Chevy and C. Clanet and D. Richard and D. Quere},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212151},
year = {2009}
}