Contaminated Droplet from Shape Oscillation Damping

When a droplet of one fluid flows through another fluid, its shape oscillates. By filming these vibrations using a fast camera, researchers from the Laboratoire de génie chimique (LGC), including Benjamin Lalanne, professor-researcher Toulouse INP-ENSIACET and the Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT) have managed to determine the level of contaminants that the bubble, or drop, carries on its surface.

 

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This work, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, allows a measurement in a medium as fine as the surface of a bubble.

Researchers Contacts 

  • Benjamin Lalanne, Toulouse INP teacher-researcher at the Laboratoire de génie chimique (LGC, CNRS/Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier/Toulouse INP), benjamin.lalanne @ ensiacet.fr
  • Frédéric Risso, CNRS researcher at the Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT, CNRS/Université Toulouse III -Paul Sabatier/Toulouse INP), frisso @ imft.fr

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