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The phenomenon of a liquid jet released under gravity and falling through or impacting onto another liquid before colliding with an obstructing solid surface has been studied experimentally under isothermal conditions. Usually the jet diameter was sufficiently large to ensure jet coherency until collision. Direct flow visualization was used to study jets released into water pools with no air head space and jets impacting onto water pools after falling through an air head space. It is shown that distances predicting the onset of buoyancy and the entrainment of air using derivations from continuous plunging jets, are not applicable for impacting jets. The morphology of jet debris after collision with the solid surfaces correlates with the wetting properties of the jet liquid on the surface.
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Received: 28 November 1997 / Accepted: 21 May 1998
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Storr, G., Behnia, M. Experiments with large diameter gravity driven impacting liquid jets. Experiments in Fluids 27, 60–69 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050329
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