Drop spreading on a superhydrophobic surface: pinned contact line and bending liquid surface

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (22) ◽  
pp. 14442-14452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbin Wang ◽  
Joseph Eugene Andrews ◽  
Liangbing Hu ◽  
Siddhartha Das
Keyword(s):  
Contact Line ◽  
Superhydrophobic Surface ◽  
Liquid Surface ◽  
Liquid Interface ◽  
Phase Contact ◽  
Drop Spreading ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Air Liquid Interface

On a superhydrophobic surface, a drop spreads by the bending of the air–liquid interface with the three-phase contact line remaining pinned.

Test of the stability of a three-phase contact line with negative line tension

1999 ◽  
Vol 96 (9) ◽  
pp. 1335-1339 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN E. VAN GIESSEN, DIRK JAN BUKMAN, B.
Keyword(s):  
Contact Line ◽  
Line Tension ◽  
Phase Contact ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
The Stability

Faster Nucleation of Ice and Carbon Dioxide Hydrates at the Three-Phase Contact Line

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aritra Kar ◽  
Awan Bhati ◽  
Palash V. Acharya ◽  
Ashish Mhadeshwar ◽  
Roger Bonnecaze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Phase Contact ◽  
Three Phase

Effect of Charge Distribution at the Three Phase Contact Line for an Electrolyte Drop

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dibyo Sarkar ◽  
Siddhartha Das ◽  
Sushanta K. Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Electrolyte Solution ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Electric Double Layer ◽  
Charged Surface ◽  
Electrokinetic Transport ◽  
Phase Contact ◽  
Advective Flux ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
First Time

In this paper, we obtain the velocity field in a wedge in a Three Phase Contact Line (TPCL) in an electrolyte drop which is evaporating on a charged solid. Combination of an electrolyte solution and the charged surface leads to the formation of an Electric Double Layer (EDL), which in presence of the evaporation-triggered pressure-driven transport, leads to the generation of a streaming current that causes an electrokinetic transport. Hence, we analyze for the first time an electrokinetic transport in a charged wedge in presence of an evaporation-induced advective flux. Our results exhibit flow patterns that are distinctly different as compared to that of the case where there is no such electrokinetic transport and the problem is merely that of evaporation in a wedge.

Numerical Simulation of Digital Microfluidics Based on Electro-Dynamic Model

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Liguo Chen ◽  
Mingxiang Ling ◽  
Deli Liu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Contact Area ◽  
Digital Microfluidics ◽  
Phase Contact ◽  
Electrowetting On Dielectric ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
Contact Domain

Aiming at the doubt and divarication about the internal mechanism of electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) in digital microfluidics, the authors attempted to explain the internal mechanism of EWOD through electro-dynamic-based numerical simulation model. First, the boundary conditions for the governing equation were found. Then the influence of mesh number on simulation results was analyzed and feasibility of the simulation model was verified by comparing numerical results with theoretical ratiocination. Finally, they compared the electro-dynamic actuation force acting on the surface of droplet on three digital microfluidic structures, which have the same three-phase contact line but different area of contact domain. Analytical results showed that electro-dynamic force generated solely by the accumulation of induced charges in contact domain was three times larger than that generated by three-phase contact line. Induced charges accumulated on both three-phase contact line and contact area of droplet gave the contribution to EWOD, but contact area played a major role in the change of contact angle of droplet.

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