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The document discusses using the pendant drop method and MATLAB to measure interfacial tension between two immiscible liquids. It will take an image of a pendant drop as input, analyze the drop's surface contour to determine radius of curvature, then use the Young-Laplace equation to calculate and output the interfacial tension. The objectives are to create a user-friendly MATLAB program that automatically measures interfacial tension from an image without manual analysis.

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Pendant Drop PDF

The document discusses using the pendant drop method and MATLAB to measure interfacial tension between two immiscible liquids. It will take an image of a pendant drop as input, analyze the drop's surface contour to determine radius of curvature, then use the Young-Laplace equation to calculate and output the interfacial tension. The objectives are to create a user-friendly MATLAB program that automatically measures interfacial tension from an image without manual analysis.

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The Pendant Drop Method for Measuring Interfacial Tension

Researched by Kevin K. Mohan, Nuclear & Radiological Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Overview of Proposed Work


Over the last decade, computers have continued following a Moores Law trend and have increased in computational power tremendously. Following this increase in computational power was the subsequent boom in the levels of complexity of various computer softwares, whether originating from the gaming industry or from the private sector and manufacturing companies with design and modeling programs. The power of these programs in recent years has allowed the average household user to process high quality data at a level comparable to todays industry standards. Specifically, programs like MATLAB have enabled users to model, design, and analyze high quality renderings of data with real application value. In Physics, the studies of the most fundamental interactions of matter in the universe have taken on great interest by scientists from all over the world. At the microscopic level, it is in fact not gravity that dominates interactions, but rather surface tension that has the most influence over the micro-world. Classically, proposed methods to analyze the interfacial tension between two interfaces have relied on approximative methods and iterative numerical computations with limited understanding of the physics that fundamentally defines these interactions. Using the power of todays technology, the proposed research will analyze the Young-Laplace Equation in its association with the interfacial tension between different interfaces using a computer program written in MATLAB.

Objectives for Next Semester Research


Continuing research of the previous semester conducted in the Fernandez-Nieves Soft Condensed Matter Lab at Georgia Tech under the direction of Dr. Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves and with the help of co-mentor graduate student, Ekapop Pairam, on the understanding of the second order partial differential Laplace Equation in its physical application to the Pendant Drop Method to measure interfacial tension sets the framework for next semesters research. The main objective of next semesters research will be to use MATLAB computational software to create a user-friendly program that takes in an image of a pendant drop of any fluid immersed in any another fluid and outputs a reading of the interfacial tension between the two immiscible interfaces at any given time, thereby employing the power of modern technology.

The Pendant Drop Method for Measuring Interfacial Tension


Methods/Techniques
Using IC Capture imaging software, the research will receive an inputted image of a pendant drop from a CCD super-high quality camera and then apply filtering and contrast the image to find just the interface surface of the immersed liquid. Once the interfacial surface contour has been developed, the research will use MATLAB to first correct for any shifting in the axis of the pendant drop. The next step would be to find the radius of curvature, R, of the pendant drop at the apex of the drop. Once the radius of curvature is found, the form factor constant, , which defines the shape of all possible shapes of drops of any fluids in the universe under the presence of an applied gravity field, can be found. Once the fundamental properties of the fluids interface are calculated and analyzed, the program will employ the Young-Laplace Equation to determine interfacial tension:

Young-Laplace Equation

Interfacial Tension Equation

References
[1] Nicolas J. Alvarez, Lynn M. Walker, Shelley L. Anna, A non-gradient based algorithm for the determination of surface tension from a pendant drop: Application to low Bond number drop shapes, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 333, Issue 2, 15 May 2009, Pages 557-562 [2] O'Brien, S. (2002). Asymptotics of a Sequence of Pendant Drops. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 62(5), Pages 1569-1580. [3] Arashiro, Emerson Y. and Demarquette, Nicole R.. Use of the pendant drop method to measure interfacial tension between molten polymers. Mat. Res. [online]. 1999, vol.2, n.1 [cited 2011-05-20], Pages 23-32 . [4] Bihai Song, Jurgen Springer, Determination of Interfacial Tension from the Profile of a Pendant Drop Using Computer-Aided Image Processing: 1. Theoretical, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 184, Issue 1, 1 December 1996, Pages 64-76. [5] F. K. Hansen, G. Rodsrud, Surface tension by pendant drop : I. A fast standard instrument using computer image analysis, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 141, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 1-9.

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