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The entrainment of bubbles by drop impacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Hugh C. Pumphrey  and
Paul A. Elmore
Hugh C. Pumphrey
Affiliation:
National Center for Physical Acoustics, PO Box 847, University, MS 38677, USA Present address: Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
Paul A. Elmore
Affiliation:
National Center for Physical Acoustics, PO Box 847, University, MS 38677, USA Present address: Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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Abstract

Various processes are described by which a drop of water, impacting on a water surface, may entrain a bubble. There are: (i) irregular entrainment, in which the complex details of a splash entrain bubbles; (ii) regular entrainment, in which the crater formed by the drop impact develops in a predictable way to form a single bubble; (iii) entrainment of large bubbles, in which most of the volume of the crater is trapped as a bubble; and (iv) Mesler entrainment, in which many very small bubbles are trapped in the very early stages of the impact process; possibly between wave crests of capillary waves which develop on the drop and on the water surface. This last process is different from the preceding three in that it produces very little sound. All of the processes except the third one have been described individually in the literature; here we present them together for comparison. The regular entrainment process is discussed in the greatest detail and some new experimental results are presented which concern the size and nature of the entrained bubbles. The significance of the regular and irregular entrainment processes to the generation of underwater sound by rain is discussed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 220 , November 1990 , pp. 539 - 567
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© 1990 Cambridge University Press

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