Leidenfrost Dynamics: Supplemental Video 9

A supplemental video from the 2013 review by David Quéré, "Leidenfrost Dynamics," from the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

Impact of a water drop at We = 16 on a solid at 300°C. Although the temperature is much higher than the static Leidenfrost temperature (about 160°C), contact exists between the solid and liquid at impact, as revealed by the intense production of droplets. (This corresponds to the contact-boiling-regime data in Figure 8.) Credits: Tuan Tran and Detlef Lohse.