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The corona splash due to the impact of a liquid drop on a smooth dry substrate is investigated with high speed photography. A striking phenomenon is observed: splashing can be completely suppressed by decreasing the pressure of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lei Xu , Wendy W. Zhang , Sidney R. Nagel

Splashing occurs when a liquid drop hits a dry solid surface at high velocity. This paper reports experimental studies of how the splash depends on the roughness and the texture of the surfaces as well as the viscosity of the liquid. For…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 Lei Xu

A drop impacting a solid surface with sufficient velocity will emit many small droplets creating a splash. However, splashing is completely suppressed if the surrounding gas pressure is lowered. The mechanism by which the gas affects…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Michelle M. Driscoll , Sidney R. Nagel

It is generally accepted that the Worthington jet occurs when a droplet impacts onto a liquid pool. However, in this experimental study of the impact of viscous droplets onto a less-viscous liquid pool, we identify another jet besides the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-04 Quan Ding , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

We explore the evolution of a splash when a liquid drop impacts a smooth, dry surface. There are two splashing regimes that occur when the liquid viscosity is varied, as is evidenced by its dependence on ambient gas pressure. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Cacey S. Stevens , Andrzej Latka , Sidney R. Nagel

The impact of a liquid drop with high Reynolds and Weber numbers on a wet solid surface typically results in the emergence, rising, and expansion of a corona-like thin jet. This phenomenon is explained by the propagation of a kinematic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-25 Lukas Weimar , Bastian Stumpf , Jeanette Hussong , Ilia V. Roisman

We investigate the dynamics of drop impact on a thin liquid film at short times in order to identify the mechanisms of splashing formation. Using numerical simulations and scaling analysis, we show that the splashing formation depends both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Christophe Josserand , Pascal Ray , Stéphane Zaleski

We have studied the splashing dynamics of water drops impacting granular layers. Depending on the drop kinetic energy, various shapes are observed for the resulting craters. Experimental parameters that have been considered are : the size…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-18 G. Delon , D. Terwagne , N. Adami , A. Bronfort , N. Vandewalle , S. Dorbolo , H. Caps

Secondary droplets produced by interactions between falling fluid drops and a liquid pool play a significant role in engineering applications and geophysical processes in nature. This study uses direct numerical simulations to investigate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Han-Hsiang Kuo , Xuanting Hao

Drop impact experiments allow the modelling of a wide variety of natural processes, from raindrop impacts to planetary impact craters. In particular, interpreting the consequences of planetary impacts requires an accurate description of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-08 Victor Lherm , Renaud Deguen

Making use of experimental and theoretical considerations, in this Letter we deduce a criterion to determine the critical velocity for which a drop impacting a smooth dry surface either spreads over the substrate or disintegrates into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-31 Guillaume Riboux , José Manuel Gordillo

A liquid drop impacting a smooth solid substrate splashes by emitting a thin liquid sheet from near the contact line of the spreading liquid. This sheet is lifted from the substrate and ultimately breaks apart. Surprisingly, the splash is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-13 Andrzej Latka

The fluid dynamics of liquid droplet impact on surfaces hold significant relevance to various industrial applications. However, high impact velocities introduce compressible effects, leading to material erosion. A gap in understanding and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-01 Yanchao Liu , Xu Chu , Guang Yang , Bernhard Weigand

The interaction between planar shock waves and droplets, involved the evolution of high transient unsteady wave structures and the induced cavitation process, occurs widely in nature and industry. In this paper, a combination of theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Sheng Xu , Wenqi Fan , Wangxia Wu , Wei Wang , Bing Wang

We study drop impacts on immiscible viscous liquid pool and investigate the formation of droplet surface craters using experimental and theoretical analysis. We attribute the formation of air craters to the rapid deceleration of the droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Durbar Roy , Sophia M , Saptarshi Basu

An analytical solution is proposed to predict the crown propagation, generated by a single droplet impact on wetted walls. This approach enables a smooth transition from the inertia-driven to the viscous-controlled regime of crown…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-20 G. Lamanna , A. Geppert , R. Bernard , I. Hörner , B. Weigand

The early stages of drop impact onto a solid surface are considered. Detailed numerical simulations and detailed asymptotic analysis of the process reveal a self-similar structure both for the velocity field and the pressure field. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Julien Philippi , Pierre-Yves Lagrée , Arnaud Antkowiak

We investigate drop impact dynamics near both closed pits and open- ended pores experimentally. The resulting impact phenomena differ greatly for a pit or a pore. For the first, we observe three phenomena: a splash, a jet and an air bubble,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Rianne de Jong , Oscar R. Enríquez , Devaraj van der Meer

Droplet impact on surfaces is ubiquitous in many natural and industrial processes. While the impact dynamics of droplets composed of simple fluids have been studied extensively, droplets containing particles are less explored, but are more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-30 Boqian Yan , Xiaoyu Tang

Experimental and modelling study is presented for the effect of a wide range of liquid viscosities on the droplet impact on a smooth solid surface at atmospheric pressure. A non-monotonic variation of threshold between droplet deposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Lei Yang , Zhonghong Li , Tao Yang , Yicheng Chi , Peng Zhang