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Experimental and numerical studies on liquid bridge formed among three spheres

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Static characteristics and dynamic strength of a liquid bridge formed between vertically arranged two spheres and among three spheres were experimentally and numerically investigated. The existences of minimum and maximum bridge volumes were experimentally determined. The shapes at intermediate volumes were successfully simulated by Young-Laplace equation. Most of liquid bridges at the minimum volumes in case of three spheres were formed upon not the lower spheres but the upper sphere under narrow sphere gap. The tensile strength of the bridge formed among three spheres is larger than that between two spheres at the faster stretching speed. The effective dimensionless sphere gap for the strength was below 0.2. The simulated flow patterns within dynamical liquid bridges between vertically arranged two spheres account for the drastic decrease in the adhesive force between spheres.

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  1. Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27, Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan

    Kazuo Murase, Tsuyoshi Mochida & Hiroyuki Sugama

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Authors gratefully thank Professor Isao Sekiguchi for supporting the experiment apparatus for measuring a dynamic adhesive force and Emeritus professor Shigeki Toyama for advising this paper.

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Murase, K., Mochida, T. & Sugama, H. Experimental and numerical studies on liquid bridge formed among three spheres. GM 6, 111–119 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-004-0168-8

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