Minimum current for detachment of electrolytic bubbles

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.898MaRDI QIDQ6070335zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yixin Zhang, Detlef Lohse

Publication date 20 November 2023

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10331

zbMATH Keywords

electrolytic gas influxmolecular dynamics simulationsurface nanobubble stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: The efficiency of water electrolysis is significantly impacted by the generation of micro- and nanobubbles on the electrodes. Here molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate the dynamics of single electrolytic nanobubbles on nanoelectrodes. The simulations reveal that, depending on the value of current, nucleated nanobubbles either grow to an equilibrium state or grow unlimitedly and then detach. To account for these findings, the stability theory for surface nanobubbles is generalized by incorporating the electrolytic gas influx at the nanobubble's contact line and adopting a real gas law, leading to accurate predictions for the numerically observed transient growth and stationary states of the nanobubbles. With this theory, the minimum current for bubble detachment can also be analytically derived. In the detachment regime, the radius of the nanobubble first increases as $Rpropto{t}^{1/2}$ and then as $Rpropto{t}^{1/3}$, up to bubble detachment.

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