The contact angle in inviscid fluid mechanics

DOI10.1007/BF02829629zbMATH Open1178.76105arXivmath-ph/0508036MaRDI QIDQ2483779FDOQ2483779

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 1 August 2005

Published in: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that in general, the specification of a contact angle condition at the contact line in inviscid fluid motions is incompatible with the classical field equations and boundary conditions generally applicable to them. The limited conditions under which such a specification is permissible are derived; however, these include cases where the static meniscus is not flat. In view of this situation, the status of the many `solutions' in the literature which prescribe a contact angle in potential flows comes into question. We suggest that these solutions which attempt to incorporate a phenomenological, but incompatible, condition are in some, imprecise sense `weak-type solutions'; they satisfy or are likely to satisfy, at least in the limit, the governing equations and boundary conditions everywhere except in the neighbourhood of the contact line. We discuss the implications of the result for the analysis of inviscid flows with free surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0508036

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zbMATH Keywords

free surface flowsfinite amplitude motionsinviscid contact angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

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