Shape of pendent droplets under a tilted surface

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2020.132765zbMATH Open1490.76052arXiv2001.11233OpenAlexW3003469875MaRDI QIDQ2116313FDOQ2116313

Alvin Sodji, Juan Carlos Fernández-Toledano, Joël De Coninck, François Dunlop, Thierry E. Huillet

Publication date: 16 March 2022

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a pendant drop whose contact line is a circle of radius $r_0$, we derive the relation $mgsinalpha=piover2gamma{r}_0,(coshet{a}^{mmin}-coshet{a}^{mmax})$ at first order in the Bond number, where $het{a}^{mmin}$ and $het{a}^{mmax}$ are the contact angles at the back (uphill) and at the front (downhill), $m$ is the mass of the drop and $gamma$ the surface tension of the liquid. The Bond (or E"otv"os) number is taken as $Bo=mg/(2r_{0}gamma)$. The tilt angle $alpha$ may increase from $alpha=0$ (sessile drop) to $alpha=pi/2$ (drop pinned on vertical wall) to $alpha=pi$ (drop pendant from ceiling). The focus will be on pendant drops with $alpha=pi/2$ and $alpha=3pi/4$. The drop profile is computed exactly, in the same approximation. Results are compared with surface evolver simulations, showing good agreement up to about $Bo=1.2$, corresponding for example to hemispherical water droplets of volume up to about $50,mu$L. An explicit formula for each contact angle $het{a}^{mmin}$ and $het{a}^{mmax}$ is also given and compared with the almost exact surface evolver values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11233

zbMATH Keywords

contact angleperturbation methodYoung-Laplace equationfinite element package Surface EvolverFurmidge relationsmall Bond number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

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• The physics of microdroplets
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• Surface Evolver

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