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Birth of a bubble: Drop impact onto a thin liquid film for an immiscible three-fluid system
Pierre-Antoine Maës, Alidad Amirfazli, Christophe Josserand
When a drop impacts a solid substrate or a thin liquid film, a thin gas disc is entrapped due to surface tension, the gas disc retracts into one or several bubbles. While the evolu…
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Geometry-driven jets underlie dispersal of plants and fungi by raindrops
Ana-Maria Bratu, Valentin Laplaud, Antoine Garcia +4
The impact of droplets on concave surfaces is poorly understood, although it is relevant to a mode of dispersal that has evolved independently in several species of plants and fung…