What are the droplet transfer modes for SMAW and the CO2 gas shielded welding processes GMAW and FCAW?

Stick electrode arc welding: short-circuit transfer, lap transfer, spray transfer, explosion transfer. Gaseous metal arc welding: large-droplet transfer, spray transfer, short-circuit transfer. These are all terms that can be found in various sources. Big Waves, take a look at this. They are basically all spherical in shape, with only different sizes. The short-circuit transition in that case should not be in the form of a sphere; rather, it should be the result of molten metal flowing. Contact with the molten pool before a ball is formed causes an instantaneous short circuit in the welding power supply. The difference between the transitional forms of shielded metal arc welding and gas metal arc welding is not significant; in shielded metal arc welding, the electrode has a coating, allowing the molten droplets to adhere to the wall for transition, whereas in gas metal arc welding, such conditions do not exist. There are also no suitable conditions for using a flux core, after all, the flux is in limited quantities and surrounded by metal; the flux core melts before the filler metal does. I think in gas shielded welding with a melting electrode, explosions can occur as well. These explosions are caused by the amount of current passing through a unit area (electroexplosion), as well as by the gases generated within the metal, but the electroexplosion factor plays a more significant role. Whether it is shielded metal arc welding or gas metal arc welding, a \"bottleneck\" is formed when the droplets short-circuit, and an electric explosion occurs when the current is high enough. The large-drop transfer in gas metal arc welding is distinct from the spray transfer; when the end of the wire melts, droplets are formed. These large droplets break away from the wire but do not enter the weld pool – this phenomenon is known as large-drop transfer, and it also occurs in shielded metal arc welding.