2010 Annual Meeting

(429g) Evaporation Suppression Using Satellite Drops

Authors

R. Tadmor - Presenter, Lamar University
Aisha Leh - Presenter, Lamar University


The evaporation of a water drop placed on a surface is often a problem during experimentations. We demonstrate a way to suppress this evaporation. We show how addition of many small satellite drops surrounding the surface provides an above-saturation humidity condition for the main drop. Being smaller, the satellite drops evaporate faster suppressing the evaporation of the main drop that is used for experiments rather efficiently.