2013/10/05 by Jorge E. Fiscina, Pierre Fromholz, Rainer Sattler +1 · 3 citations
Chemical Engineering · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Breakup #Capillary action #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films #Fresnel diffraction #Fresnel equations #Fresnel zone #Instability #Resolution (logic) #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #Viscoelasticity #cond-mat.soft #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00348-013-1611-6
published in Experiments in Fluids 54(11) (Springer Science+Business Media) · accepted for publication in Experiments in Fluids
arxiv created 2013/10/05 · openalex publication_date 2013/10/17 · arxiv updated 2015/06/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We report a technique based on Fresnel diffraction with white illumination that permits the resolution of capillary surface patterns of less than 100 nanometers. We investigate Rayleigh Plateaux like instability on a viscoelastic capillary bridge and show that we can overcome the resolution limit of optical microscopy. The viscoelastic filaments are approximately 20 microns thick at the end of the thinning process when the instability sets in. The wavy distortions grow exponentially in time and the pattern is resolved by an image treatment that is based on an approximation of the measured rising flank of the first Fresnel peak.