Abstract
Breath figures are the patterns of droplets that form when fluids condense on cold surfaces; they are as familiar as the haze that forms on the bathroom mirror when you shower. In more controlled experiments, two general types of behavior are seen. If the fluid completely wets the surface, as in the case of water on very clean glass, a uniform film is produced and there is no light scattering. But if the surface is incompletely wet by the fluid, as is usually the case for water on glass, small droplets form that scatter light—the haze that we observe. What does the pattern of droplets look like and how does it grow?
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Knobler, C.M., Beysens, D. (1990). Breath Figures. In: Stanley, H.E., Ostrowsky, N. (eds) Correlations and Connectivity. NATO ASI Series, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2157-3_27
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