Singular jets during the impingement of compound drops upon lyophilic surfaces

Abstract

An important phenomenon produced during the impingement of drops upon solid surfaces is the formation of singular jet, which is often followed by the pinch-off of satellite droplets. Great efforts have been made to investigate the jetting dynamics of low-viscosity single-phase drops impact upon sufficiently lyophobic surfaces. However, whether such singular jets can be produced during the impact of compound drops and how the liquid properties and surface wettabilities affect the dynamics have remained largely unexplored. Herein, we perform comparative and systematic experiments on the impact dynamics of single-phase water and silicon oil drops, as well as water-in-oil compound drops on lyophilic substrates. We show that singular jets only occur during the impact of compound drops. The critical values in terms of the Weber number depend on both the viscosity of the silicon oil and the volume ratio of the two liquids composing the compound drops. We also show that the singular jets break up and throw out satellite droplets only when they are considerably fast and thin. Power-law correlations between the jet velocities and the jet radii, between the jet neck radius and time, and between the maximum jet height and the jetting time are obtained. A linear correlation between the radii of the jet droplets and those of the singular jets is also found and analyzed.