Pendent_Drop: An ImageJ Plugin to Measure the Surface Tension from an Image of a Pendent Drop

Adrian Daerr; Adrien Mogne

doi:10.5334/jors.97

Pendent_Drop: An ImageJ Plugin to Measure the Surface Tension from an Image of a Pendent Drop

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 4 (2016): Issue 1

By: Adrian Daerr and Adrien Mogne

Open Access

|Jan 2016

Abstract

The pendent drop method for surface tension measurement consists in analysing the shape of an axisymmetric drop hanging from a capillary tube. This software is an add-on for the public domain image processing software ImageJ which matches a theoretical profile to the contour of a pendent drop, either interactively or by automatically minimising the mismatch. It provides an estimate of the surface tension, drop volume and surface area from the best matching parameters. It can be used in a headless setup.

It is hosted on http://fiji.sc/List_of_update_sites with the source code on https://github.com/adaerr/pendent-drop

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To easily install Pendent_Drop we recommend installing enabling ImageJ from http://imagej.net/ and then enable the Pendent Drop update site http://sites.imagej.net/Daerr as described on http://fiji.sc/List_of_update_sites
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Detailed documentation about Pendent_Drop (measurement bench, validation, theory, numerics, installation instructions etc.) is included as a PDF file. It can be accessed from within ImageJ via the menu Plugins->Drop Analysis->About Pendent Drop or found in the source tree at https://github.com/adaerr/pendent-drop/blob/master/article/Goutte_pendante.pdf
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