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Successive instabilities of confined leidenfrost puddles

  • UMR 7636 CNRS-ESPCI ParisTech-Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  • Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique de l'Ecole Polytechnique

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Abstract

A Leidenfrost drop confined between two hot plates is unstable, if large enough. After a short delay to build a central vapor pocket, it forms a ring which rapidly expands and eventually bursts. We analyze this sequence of instabilities theoretically, and show that the ring size increases in a non-linear manner as a function of time, in agreement with experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number26002
JournalEPL
Volume112
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2015

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