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Volume 132, Number 2, October 2020
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| Article Number | 24002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/132/24002 | |
| Published online | 23 December 2020 | |
Freezing-damped impact of a water drop
1 Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, UMR 7190, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - F-75005 Paris, France
2 Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646, CNRS-École Polytechnique - 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
Received: 11 July 2020
Accepted: 14 September 2020
We experimentally investigate the effect of freezing on the spreading of a water drop. Whenever a water drop impacts a cold surface, whose temperature is lower than 0 °C, a thin layer of ice grows during the spreading. This freezing has a notable effect on the impact: at given Reynolds and Weber numbers, we show that lowering the surface temperature reduces the drop maximal extent. Using an analogy between this ice layer and the viscous boundary layer, which also grows during the spreading, we are able to model the effect of freezing as an effective viscosity. The scaling laws designed for viscous drop impact can therefore be applied to such a solidification problem, avoiding the recourse to a full and complex modelling of the thermal dynamics.
PACS: 47.55.nd – Spreading films
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