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Coalescence of liquid drops is critical in many phenomena such as emulsion stability, inkjet printing, and coating applications. For sessile drops on a solid surface, the coalescence process is more complicated than the coalescence of drops suspended in a fluid medium as a result of the coupling of the contact line motions to the fluid flow. In this paper, we use video microscopy to track the evolution of the interfaces and contact lines as well as the internal fluid motion within a merged sessile droplet. In this study, the fluids in the coalescing drops are miscible and have similar surface tensions and drop volumes but different viscosities and densities. Coalescence occurs in three stages. During the first stage, rapid healing of the bridge between the drops occurs just after they touch. In the second stage, slower rearrangement of the liquids occurs. We show that these intermediate rearrangements are driven by gravity even for density differences of the two fluids as small as 1%. For the systems exam...

Gravity driven current during the coalescence of two sessile drops