Donut-shaped Bubbles Formed by Raindrops
Marc Buckley, Florian Bernard, Fabrice Veron

TL;DR
This study investigates the formation of donut-shaped air bubbles resulting from raindrop impacts on water, using high-speed video to analyze the impact dynamics and bubble formation process.
Contribution
It provides detailed high-speed visual analysis of how large raindrops create toroidal air bubbles upon impact, revealing the trapping mechanism of air by the converging rim.
Findings
Toroidal air bubbles form from drops larger than 3.8 mm.
Impact dynamics involve air trapping by the converging rim.
The toroidal bubble eventually becomes hemispherical.
Abstract
Single free-falling freshwater drops were generated with no initial velocity by hypodermic needles, at an altitude of 3.61 m above a still freshwater surface. High resolution high speed videos (0.13 mm/pixel, 500 frames/second) of the dynamics of the impact were acquired. A few milliseconds after forming the usually observed cavity, canopy and coronet (Prosperetti et al. 1993), drops of diameters typically greater than 3.8 mm consistently generated toroidal (donut-shaped) air bubbles upon impact at the water surface. Videos of the dynamics of the impingement were successively taken from different angles, and with a 105 mm lens focused on different regions of the event. These allowed for a qualitative description and hypothetical explanation of the observed phenomena, which are presented alongside the actual video footage, in the hereby displayed fluid dynamics video. The video displays…
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TopicsPickering emulsions and particle stabilization
