| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 50, Number 6, June II 2000
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 769 - 775 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00547-6 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Bouncing water drops
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, URA 792 du CNRS
Collège de France - 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Received:
8
April
1999
Accepted:
7
April
2000
When a liquid drop impacts a solid, it spreads (with possibly beautiful
fingering patterns) up to the point when kinetic energy is dissipated by
viscosity. Then, it can retract (if the solid is partially wetted by the
liquid), or not. A very different behaviour can be observed on highly hydrophobous
solids. On such solids, the contact angle is close to 
, so that
the kinetic energy of the impinging drop can be transferred to surface energy,
without spreading. Thus, the drop can fully bounce. However, the liquid nature
of this kind of spring imposes a limit for the restitution coefficient, which
is due to the fact that the drop, after the lift-off, oscillates.
PACS: 68.10.Cr – Surface energy (surface tension, interface tension, angle of contact, etc.) / 68.45.Gd – Wetting / 83.50.Lh – Interfacial and free surface flows; slip
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