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Criteria for antibubble formation from drop pairs impinging on a free surface

Youngsup Song, Lenan Zhang, and Evelyn N. Wang*

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *enwang@mit.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 123601 – Published 4 December, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.123601

Abstract

Antibubbles are fluid entities with the inverse phase of regular bubbles. While the structure and stability of antibubbles have been studied, a fundamental understanding of antibubble formation remains limited. We report a theoretical and experimental study of antibubble formation. In the experiment, pairs of surfactant-laden water drops impinged successively on the surface of the same liquid reservoir to create antibubbles. We propose four criteria for antibubble formation from a scaling analysis. Two dimensionless groups prescribe the likelihood of antibubble formation, the summative Weber number and the ratio of timescales between the capillarity driven pinch-off and the viscous drainage of air.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 123601– Published 4 December, 2020
  • Received 5 October 2019
  • Revised 25 March 2020
  • Accepted 21 October 2020
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