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Bouncing antibubbles

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The behavior of antibubbles bouncing on a gas–liquid interface is studied using a high-speed video camera. The dimensionless bounce time is found to be independent of the impacting velocity of the antibubbles over a wide range of velocities. Whether the drop bounces off the liquid surface or not is sensitive to the Weber number We, and the critical We is presented based on experimental results.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 51475415 and 51405429), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. LR15E050001) and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2015M581925).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Jun Zou, Wei Wang & Chen Ji

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Zou, J., Wang, W. & Ji, C. Bouncing antibubbles. Exp Fluids 57, 147 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-016-2229-2

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