Student Manual | ![]() A droplet placed on a liquid surface usually spreads or stays intact, but under certain conditions, it bursts into smaller droplets, scattering across the surface. This effect, known as Marangoni bursting, is driven by surface tension gradients and evaporation. This activity explores this effect through the analysis of sharp videos. The phenomenon of self-similarity will also be appreciated, which means that physical effects show the same underlying behavior despite being of different sizes. |
Experiment Code | 1.37 |
Version | 2025-v1 |
Further Readings and References
- 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,https://gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd-2017/59a83600b8ac316d388419f1, G. Durey et al., V0020, (2017).
- Physical Review Letters,https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.074504, L. Keiser at al., 118, 074504, (2017).