Thursday 28 February 2013

Fluid mechanics: Bubble impacts caught on film

Fluid mechanics: Bubble impacts caught on film


This is no meteor impact but rather a bubble like the one from your champagne impacting the glass.


Here is a video of the impact.  You can put some background music of Mettallica in the background.


Published on Jan 29, 2013
Once the bubble has settled on to the glass slide (right), the film of water that separates the two takes a relatively long time to drain away, as revealed by the changing interference pattern (left). © 2013 A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing