Morphological evolution of microscopic dewetting droplets with slip

Chan, Tak Shing, McGraw, Joshua D., Salez, Thomas, Seemann, Ralf and Brinkmann, Martin (2017) Morphological evolution of microscopic dewetting droplets with slip. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 828. pp. 271-288. ISSN 0022-1120

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Abstract

We investigate the dewetting of a droplet on a smooth horizontal solid surface for different slip lengths and equilibrium contact angles. Specifically, we solve for the axisymmetric Stokes flow using the boundary element method with (i) the Navier-slip boundary condition at the solid/liquid boundary and (ii) a time-independent equilibrium contact angle at the contact line. When decreasing the rescaled slip length b with respect to the initial central height of the droplet, the typical non-sphericity of a droplet first increases, reaches a maximum at a characteristic rescaled slip length bm≈O(0.1-1) and then decreases. Regarding different equilibrium contact angles, two universal rescalings are proposed to describe the behaviour of the non-sphericity for rescaled slip lengths larger or smaller than bm. Around bm, the early time evolution of the profiles at the rim can be described by similarity solutions. The results are explained in terms of the structure of the flow field governed by different dissipation channels: elongational flows for b>>bm, friction at the substrate for b≈bm and shear flows for b<<bm. Following the changes between these dominant dissipation mechanisms, our study indicates a crossover to the quasistatic regime when b is many orders of magnitude smaller than bm.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	capillary flows, contact lines, interfacial flows (free surface)
Subjects:	F300 Physics
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2019 15:17
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:17
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41079

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