Freezing of a nanofluid droplet : from a pointy tip to flat plateau

• Main Authors: Zhao, Yugang, Yang, Chun, Cheng, P.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Contact Angle; Drops
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153567
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Understanding the dynamics during freezing of nanofluid droplets is of importance from both fundamental and practical viewpoints. It is known that a universal pointy tip is formed on the top of a frozen water droplet [Marín et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113(5), 054301 (2014)]. Here, we report that the fo...