The Effect of Gravity on the Dynamics of a Sessile Drop

Liquid drop is a very common phenomenon occurring in various natural and industrial processes, e.g. thermal management, combustion systems, etc. Although there is a lot of investigations on sessile drops in the literature, there is only a few performed under different gravity conditions. In this work we present experimental results on sessile drops obtained under normal gravity (1g), microgravity (μg) and hypergravity (up to 20g). The microgravity experiment was conducted during the 52nd and 53rd ESA Parabolic Flight Campaigns in Bordeaux, France, Fig. 1a. The hypergravity experiment was carried out in the ESA Large Diameter Centrifuge in Noordwijk, Netherlands,