| Issue |
Emergent Scientist
Volume 1, 2017
International Physicists' Tournament 2016
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 1 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/emsci/2017001 | |
| Published online | 25 August 2017 | |
Research Article
Generation and trajectory control of water drops able to bounce on a flat water surface
Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, Département de Physique,
69342
Lyon, France
* e-mail: clement.gouiller@ens-lyon.fr
Received:
19
December
2016
Accepted:
6
July
2017
Under some conditions, a water droplet can bounce on a flat water surface. This paper contains a qualitative analysis of the bouncing phenomenon that leads to try to obtain drops with a nearly tangential incidence, the smallest radius and the highest velocity possible. We describe the experimental setup that we built, able to throw unique droplets at typical speed v ~ 1 m.s−1, radius R ~ 4 × 10−4 m and impact angle θ ~ 15° with respect to the surface. Up to 4 bounces were experimentally observed. The experimental results’ plot shows the statistical behaviour of the bouncing process: the initial conditions are not sufficient to predict the trajectory and consequently the number of bounces.
Key words: bouncing water droplets / Leidenfrost slide / Weber number / superhydrophobic surface
© C. Gouiller et al., Published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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