Controlling the partial coalescence of a droplet onto a vertically vibrated bath

A new method is proposed to stop a cascade of partial coalescences of a droplet laid onto a liquid bath. This technique consists in vertically vibrating the bath in order to keep small droplets bouncing. Since large droplets are not able to bounce, they partially coalesce until they reach a critical size. The system behaves as a low pass filter : droplets smaller than the critical size are selected. This size has been investigated as a function of the bath acceleration. The method could be used in order to create droplets with a defined size