Abstract
Bubble pinch-off is a rapid process and until now is not well-understood especially for the final stage near the breakup point. In this work, we aim at investigating the air bubble pinch-off at a submerged nozzle in various fluids, including Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Different fluids exert different effects on the pinch-off dynamics as well as shape evolution immediately after pinch-off. A scaling law was applied to describe the bubble pinch-off in Newtonian fluids and the exponents: b=0.5 for low viscosity fluids and b=1 for high viscosity fluids, are in a good agreement with the conventional values predicted by the numerical simulation. For bubbles in non-Newtonian fluids, the pinch-off dynamics is mainly governed by the fluid rheology. The universal scaling exponent exists between 0.5 and 1 for low shear-thinning fluids while a non-universal character occurs for bubble pinch-off in high shear-thinning fluids. Our experimental results were confirmed by the numerical simulation.
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