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Bubble Disconnection: Self-Similarity and Cascading Physics

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Surface tension disconnects a capillary bubble from a capillary bridge while driving a surrounding inviscid flow. Spatial and temporal behavior is studied just prior to and just after disconnection, via computation and experiment. They are in agreement both before and after the event but anticipated self-similarity is observed only beforehand. Computation coincides with observation due to modeling that identifies the cascade of physics probed as decades of length scales are traversed.

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY

    Oluş N. Boratav & Paul H. Steen

  2. Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, IL

    Yi-Ju Chen

  3. Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY

    Paul H. Steen

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  1. Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

    John L. Lumley

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Boratav, O.N., Chen, YJ., Steen, P.H. (2001). Bubble Disconnection: Self-Similarity and Cascading Physics. In: Lumley, J.L. (eds) Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 566. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44512-9_2

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