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On the role of capillary waves in the mechanism of coalescence of a droplet cluster

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Packets of capillary waves on the surface of a horizontal water layer generated at coalescence with a layer of microdroplets (with a characteristic diameter of 50–100 μm) of the dissipative structure “droplet cluster” have been detected by high-speed video recording and the schlieren method. The shortest experimentally observed waves have a length of about 130 μm and their phase velocity exceeds 1.8 m/s. It has been found that the coalescence of a single drop initiates a self-sustained wave process, which induces the coalescence of hundreds of droplets in a time shorter than 1 ms, which form a cluster.

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  1. Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 625003, Russia

    A. A. Fedorets

  2. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    I. V. Marchuk & O. A. Kabov

  3. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    I. V. Marchuk

  4. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

    O. A. Kabov

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Fedorets, I.V. Marchuk, O.A. Kabov, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 99, No. 5, pp. 307–310.

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Fedorets, A.A., Marchuk, I.V. & Kabov, O.A. On the role of capillary waves in the mechanism of coalescence of a droplet cluster. Jetp Lett. 99, 266–269 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364014050087

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