On impacting a hypersonic vehicle, water droplets can break up into a cloud of smaller ones. The team behind the new study tested how these clouds interact with two types of canonical geometries.

Jeffrey D. Naber, Patrick V. Farrell, Hydrodynamics of Droplet Impingement on a Heated Surface, SAE Transactions, Vol. 102, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1993), pp. 1346-1361 ...

The water lens is made possible by surface tension, which holds the droplet in place inside the hole of the 5 yen coin. The coin is then placed over the camera lens.

When the wire spokes pull the blocks inward, the wheel’s traction increases – similar to how surface tension holds a liquid droplet in a circular shape. In contrast, loosening the wire spokes ...

Scientists in Belgium have uncovered a new way to shake things up. Violent bouncing of a water droplet coated with oil causes the oil layer to move inside and fracture into many oily globs. In a ...

The drop on top of the penny was able to grow and grow because water sticks to itself. The outside surface held the drop together until the drop got so large and heavy that the surface could no longer ...

Before A Water Droplet Bursts Droplets form little spheres due to surface tension. However, in the presence of other forces, like an electric field, it tends to lose its shape.

Water drop transportation on wettability switchable surface via anisotropic molecules Journal: Applied Physics Letters Published: 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1063/5.0232611 Affiliations: 3 Authors: 3 Go to ...