Spreading and contact-line arrest dynamics of impacting oxidized liquid-metal droplets

Authors :: H. Pirouz Kavehpour
Rob N. Candler
Ryan McGuan
Source :: Physical Review Fluids. 6
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
Abstract: A phenomenological study is presented of the impact, spreading, and arrest of Galinstan droplets on a rigid substrate. The maximum diameter at which contact line arrest occurs is found to be a power law of the speed and a model is presented to rationalize the observations.

Subjects :: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Liquid metal
Materials science
Dynamics (mechanics)
Contact line
Computational Mechanics
Substrate (electronics)
Mechanics
Power law
humanities
Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior
Galinstan
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
chemistry.chemical_compound
Maximum diameter
chemistry
Modeling and Simulation
health care economics and organizations

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