Inviscid coalescence of drops

DOI10.1017/S0022112003004646MaRDI QIDQ4465438zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laurent Duchemin, Jens Eggers, C. Josserand

Publication date 9 June 2004

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0212075

zbMATH Keywords

boundary integral methodsurface tension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

Abstract: We study the coalescence of two drops of an ideal fluid driven by surface tension. The velocity of approach is taken to be zero and the dynamical effect of the outer fluid (usually air) is neglected. Our approximation is expected to be valid on scales larger than $el{l}_u=ho{u}^2/sigma$, which is $10nm$ for water. Using a high-precision boundary integral method, we show that the walls of the thin retracting sheet of air between the drops reconnect in finite time to form a toroidal enclosure. After the initial reconnection, retraction starts again, leading to a rapid sequence of enclosures. Averaging over the discrete events, we find the minimum radius of the liquid bridge connecting the two drops to scale like $r_{b}propto{t}^{1/2}$.

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