Dynamics of tongue shaped cavity generated during the impact of high-speed microdrops

Abstract

Tongue shaped cavities are seen during the hydrophobic sphere impact, jet impact, and impact of a train of microdrops on a deep liquid pool. For the multiple microdrops’ impact, the mechanisms, which lead to deep cavity formation and later bubble entrapment inside the liquid pool, are presented here. The investigations are performed in an air–water system at large values of Froude numbers, thus having a negligible effect of gravity. Depending on the train length, the capillary wave generating from each drop impact affects the necking. The temporal variation of the neck radius shows power law behavior. We delineate the distinctive feature of pinch-off of the cavity in terms of the critical length of the train. Pinch-off is observed when the penetration depth of the cavity is more than three times the diameter of the cavity.