Pulling bubbles from a bath

Deposition of bubbles on a wall withdrawn from a liquid bath is a phenomenon observed in many everyday situations—the foam lacing left behind in an emptied glass of beer, for instance. It is also of importance to the many industrial processes where uniformity of coating is desirable. We report work...

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Main Authors: Kao, Justin C. T., Blakemore, Andrea L., Hosoi, Anette E.
Outros autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:en_US
Publicado: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2013
Acceso en liña:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78569
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-7496
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Summary:Deposition of bubbles on a wall withdrawn from a liquid bath is a phenomenon observed in many everyday situations—the foam lacing left behind in an emptied glass of beer, for instance. It is also of importance to the many industrial processes where uniformity of coating is desirable. We report work on an idealized version of this situation, the drag-out of a single bubble in Landau–Levich–Derjaguin flow. We find that a well-defined critical wall speed exists, separating the two regimes of bubble persistence at the meniscus and bubble deposition on the moving wall. Experiments show that this transition occurs at Ca[superscript ∗] ~ Bo[superscript 0.73]. A similar result is obtained theoretically by balancing viscous stresses and gravity.