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Minimum thickness of liquid film for the validity of water hammer theory

英語

2025-08-29

Physics of Fluids

37(8)

081711

Systems that clean by high-speed nanodroplet injection have recently been developed; however, elucidating the cleaning mechanism underlying nanodroplet impact is urgently required. In this study, numerical simulations of the high-speed impact phenomenon of two liquid films were performed using the Enskog–Vlasov direct simulation Monte Carlo method. We determine the minimum liquid film thickness for which the water hammer theory is applicable to the maximum pressure generated during liquid film impact. The simulation results show that the water hammer pressure was generated when the liquid film thickness exceeded the compression wavefront thickness generated by the liquid film impact, which is more than ten times the molecular diameter.

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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in:Y. Matsumoto, T. Kaneko, and T. Ogasawara,“Minimum thickness of liquid film for the validity of water hammer theory”Physics of Fluids 37(8), 081711 (2025) and may be found at:https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/8/081711/3361121/Minimum-thickness-of-liquid-film-for-the-validity

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