Dripping-onto-droplet capillary breakup
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| author | Khoury, Ricardo El Isukwem, Kindness Hachem, Elie Pereira, Anselmo |
| author_facet | Khoury, Ricardo El Isukwem, Kindness Hachem, Elie Pereira, Anselmo |
| contents | This experimental, numerical, and theoretical study investigates the capillary thinning and breakup of Newtonian filaments formed following the coalescence of a millimetric-nozzle-generated pendant drop with a lower droplet cap contained in a millimetric cylinder in ambient air, i.e., dripping-onto-droplet capillary breakup (DoD). Our mixed approach combines filament breakup experiments recorded with a high-speed camera and three-dimensional numerical simulations based on a variational multiscale framework for multiphase fluid flows. The results are analysed by considering the dynamics of fluid filament thinning, energy transfers, and scaling laws. Three flow regimes are highlighted: capillary-inertial, capillary-viscous, and mixed capillary-inertial-viscous. All regimes are affected by gravity. The findings are summarised in a two-dimensional diagram that correlates the filament breakup time with different flow regimes using the important dimensionless parameters of the problem, e.g., the Ohnesorge number (which relates the viscous stress to inertial and capillary stresses) and the Bond number (which balances the gravitational stress with the capillary one). This diagram can be used to quantify both the liquid viscosity and the liquid-gas surface tension (for Newtonian fluids). Lastly, we demonstrate that DoD can also be used as a rheometric test, giving access to the extensional relaxation time of polymer solutions (for viscoelastic fluids). |
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| spellingShingle | Dripping-onto-droplet capillary breakup Khoury, Ricardo El Isukwem, Kindness Hachem, Elie Pereira, Anselmo Fluid Dynamics This experimental, numerical, and theoretical study investigates the capillary thinning and breakup of Newtonian filaments formed following the coalescence of a millimetric-nozzle-generated pendant drop with a lower droplet cap contained in a millimetric cylinder in ambient air, i.e., dripping-onto-droplet capillary breakup (DoD). Our mixed approach combines filament breakup experiments recorded with a high-speed camera and three-dimensional numerical simulations based on a variational multiscale framework for multiphase fluid flows. The results are analysed by considering the dynamics of fluid filament thinning, energy transfers, and scaling laws. Three flow regimes are highlighted: capillary-inertial, capillary-viscous, and mixed capillary-inertial-viscous. All regimes are affected by gravity. The findings are summarised in a two-dimensional diagram that correlates the filament breakup time with different flow regimes using the important dimensionless parameters of the problem, e.g., the Ohnesorge number (which relates the viscous stress to inertial and capillary stresses) and the Bond number (which balances the gravitational stress with the capillary one). This diagram can be used to quantify both the liquid viscosity and the liquid-gas surface tension (for Newtonian fluids). Lastly, we demonstrate that DoD can also be used as a rheometric test, giving access to the extensional relaxation time of polymer solutions (for viscoelastic fluids). |
| title | Dripping-onto-droplet capillary breakup |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10301 |