New Theory Reveals Secrets of Why Water Splashes
When a drop of water falls, it is prevented from spreading smoothly across a surface by a microscopically thin layer of air that it can’t push aside – so instead of wetting the surface, parts of the liquid fly off, and a splash is generated.
A layer of air 1 micron in size – fifty times smaller than the width of a human hair – can obstruct a 1mm drop of water which is one thousand times larger.
This is comparable to a 1cm layer of air stopping a tsunami wave spreading across a beach.
Dr Sprittles has established exactly what happens to this miniscule layer of air during the super-fast action by developing a new theory, capturing its microscopic dynamics – factoring in different physical conditions, such as liquid viscosity and air pressure, to predict whether splashes will occur or not.
The lower the air pressure, the easier the air can escape from the squashed layer – giving less resistance to the water drop – enabling the suppression of splashes. This is why drops are less likely to splash at the top of mountains, where the air pressure is reduced.
Understanding the conditions that cause splashing enables researchers to find out how to prevent it – leading to potential breakthroughs in various fields.
In 3D printing, liquid drops can form the building blocks of tailor-made products such as hearing aids; stopping splashing is key to making products of the desired quality.
Splashes are also a crucial part of forensic science – whether blood drops have splashed or not provides insight into where they came from, which can be vital information in a criminal investigation.
Dr Sprittles comments:
“You would never expect a seemingly simple everyday event to exhibit such complexity. The air layer’s width is so small that it is similar to the distance air molecules travel between collisions, so that traditional models are inaccurate and a microscopic theory is required.
“Most promisingly, the new theory should have applications to a wide range of related phenomena, such as in climate science – to understand how water drops collide during the formation of clouds or to estimate the quantity of gas being dragged into our oceans by rainfall.”
Contacts and sources:
The University of Warwick
Dr Sprittles is a part of Micro & Nano Flows for Engineering, a research partnership between the Universities of Warwick and Edinburgh, and Daresbury Laboratory.
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/03/new-theory-reveals-secrets-of-why-water.html
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Wow! What an important study that was! I think this surely changes
everything in our lives! I am now going to re-examine reality itself now.
This could be the most important study in all of mankind’s history!
What kind of bored bozo would even consider such a study? I truly
believe that it may rand of perhaps the very last thing on the list
of things to study.. That ranks up there with “how many times a day
do male cockroaches want to mate?”