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On the elasticity of a liquid shock

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A drop of low viscosity hitting a solid may bounce, provided that the material is highly hydrophobic. As a model of such a situation, we consider here the case of a very hot solid. Then, as discovered by Leidenfrost, a thin layer of vapour sustains the drop, preventing any contact with the substrate. On hitting such a solid, a drop rebounds, and we discuss here the elasticity of the shock. Two very different cases are described: at a large velocity, the weaker the impact velocity, the weaker the elasticity; at a small velocity, a quasi-elastic regime is found. The boundary between the two domains is set by a Weber number, which compares the kinetic and surface energies of the drop, of order unity.

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hal-00014775 , version 1 (30-11-2005)

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Anne-Laure Biance, Frédéric Chevy, Guillaume Lagubeau, Christophe Clanet, David Quéré. On the elasticity of a liquid shock. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2006, 554, pp.47-66. ⟨10.1017/S0022112006009189⟩. ⟨hal-00014775⟩
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