Open AccessThermal conditions for the formation of self-assembled cluster of droplets over the water surface
Author(s) -
Alexander A. Fedorets,
Leonid A. Dombrovsky,
Dmitry Shcherbakov,
Mark Frenkel,
Edward Bormashenko,
Michael Nosonovsky
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2116/1/012038
Subject(s) - cluster (spacecraft) , monolayer , levitation , chemical physics , layer (electronics) , materials science , surface (topology) , thermal , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , geometry , computer science , engineering , magnet , programming language , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The effect of temperature profile of the water layer surface on the formation and structure of a levitating droplet cluster is studied in the paper. The laboratory experiments indicate that a local temperature maximum of water is a necessary condition for the formation of a cluster. A quantitative criterium of transformation of a monolayer of randomly positioned microdroplets to a self-assembled cluster of relatively large droplets is obtained.