Tears of wine: The dance of the droplets

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
Alex NikolovJongju Lee

Abstract

For a long time, the phenomenon known as the "tears of wine" was believed to be due only to the surface tension gradient (e.g., the Thomson-Marangoni stress on the fluid/fluid surface's dynamics of wetting) and gravity. We experimentally demonstrated that the wine tear formation is not solely due to the surface tension gradient; instead, the ridge instability triggers the wine tears. Pouring wine into a glass causes a wine film to form on the glass. The film drains down under gravity and a ridge forms at its upper part. Over time, the ridge becomes unstable. Under gravity, a necklace of droplets (tears) appears and slides down. Here, we present experimental evidence that the Plateau-Rayleigh-Taylor theory for the stability criterion of a horizontal annulus fluid column under small, exponentially growing capillary disturbances and the surface tension breakdown into droplets can also be applied to the stability of a horizontal fluid's (wine) ridge on a wetted solid, where gravity causes the droplets (tears) to slide down, resulting in the formation of a necklace of droplets ("tears"). The wine droplets ("tears") move down and up ("dance") due to the effects of the surface tension gradient and gravity. The process repeats itself f...Continue Reading

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Dec 12, 2019·Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids·Peyman RostamiGünter K Auernhammer

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