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Impacts and fragmentation in liquid-liquid systems: Planet formation in the lab

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Impact and fragmentation processes in immiscible liquids occurred on a massive scale during the accretion of the Earth when high-speed planetary collisions melted the Earth’s mantle, releasing the metal core of the impacting planetary body in a deep magma ocean. I will present two series of experiments on (1) the instability and fragmentation of blobs of a heavy liquid released into a lighter immiscible liquid, and (2) their impacts with a stratified interface between two immiscible liquids. For sufficiently turbulent conditions, we find a previously unobserved regime where fragmentation into drops occurs as a sudden and single event inside a self-similar vortex ring. I will discuss implications of our scaling laws on turbulent entrainment for geochemical models of Earth formation and stratification of the Earth’s core.

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