Critical Phenomena of a Drop Through a Stratified Fluid - Selected Topics of Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics - page 476

Fig. 6 Rebound: The material traverses the interface. There is an interval of 1.21 s between ( a )and
( b ), and of 0.5 s between ( b )and( c )

Ta b l e 1 Summary of results
Densities of
the layers
g

Phenomenon Density of the
drop

Thickness of
the top layer
(cm)

Height of
release of the
drop (cm)
±

Radius of the
drop (mm)
±

cm 3

( g / )

cm 3

/ ± 0.0005 ± 0.005 0.05

0.005

Top 0.990 Rebound 1.027 1 1 1.95

Settling 1.027 4 2 2.06

Lower 1.027 Core Fallout 1.040 3.5 At the free

surface

1.89

Chandelier 1.030 3 At the free

surface

1.77

Fig. 7 Stability diagram: the thickness of the top layer is on the vertical axis while the density
difference between the drop and the bottom layer appears on the horizontal axis. The blue line is
theoretical, the green line are Camassa's results and the reults from this work are shown in red