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Thoraval, Marie-Jean Dissertation
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DissertationAuthors
Thoraval, Marie-JeanAdvisors
Thoroddsen, Sigurdur T
Committee members
Chung, Suk Ho
Kasimov, Aslan R.

Quere, David
Samtaney, Ravi

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Mechanical EngineeringKAUST Department
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) DivisionDate
2013-03Embargo End Date
2013-06-11Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/293818
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At the time of archiving, the student author of this dissertation opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this dissertation became available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2013-06-11.Abstract
Drop impact is a canonical problem in fluid mechanics, with numerous applications in industrial as well as natural phenomena. The extremely simple initial configuration of the experiment can produce a very large variety of fast and complex dynamics. Scientific progress was made in parallel with major improvements in imaging and computational technologies. Most recently, high-speed imaging video cameras have opened the exploration of new phenomena occurring at the micro-second scale, and parallel computing allowed realistic direct numerical simulations of drop impacts. We combine these tools to bring a new understanding of two fundamental aspects of drop impacts: splashing and air entrapment. The early dynamics of a drop impacting on a liquid pool at high velocity produces an ejecta sheet, emerging horizontally in the neck between the drop and the pool. We show how the interaction of this thin liquid sheet with the air, the drop or the pool, can produce micro-droplets and bubble rings. Then we detail how the breakup of the air film stretched between the drop and the pool for lower impact velocities can produce a myriad of micro-bubbles.Citation
Thoraval, M.-J. (2013). Drop impact splashing and air entrapment. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-2W9GVae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.25781/KAUST-2W9GV