Deformation of an elastic substrate due to a resting sessile droplet

DOI10.1017/S0956792517000134zbMATH Open1391.74066arXiv1607.01637OpenAlexW2945021409WikidataQ108723182 ScholiaQ108723182MaRDI QIDQ4575281FDOQ4575281

Authors: Aaron Bardall, Karen E. Daniels, Michael Shearer 

Publication date: 13 July 2018

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: On a sufficiently-soft substrate, a resting fluid droplet will cause significant deformation of the substrate. This deformation is driven by a combination of capillary forces at the contact line and the fluid pressure at the solid surface. These forces are balanced at the surface by the solid traction stress induced by the substrate deformation. Young's Law, which predicts the equilibrium contact angle of the droplet, also indicates an a priori radial force balance for rigid substrates, but not necessarily for soft substrates which deform under loading. It remains an open question whether the contact line transmits a non-zero radial force to the substrate surface in addition to the conventional vertical force. We present an analytic Fourier transform solution technique that includes general interfacial energy conditions which govern the contact angle of a 2D droplet. This includes evaluating the effect of gravity on the droplet shape in order to determine the correct fluid pressure at the substrate surface for larger droplets. Importantly, we find that in order to avoid a strain singularity at the contact line under a nonzero radial contact line force, it is necessary to include a previously-neglected radial traction boundary condition. To quantify the effects of the contact line and identify key quantities that will be experimentally-accessible for testing the model, we evaluate solutions for the substrate surface displacement field as a function of Poisson's ratio and zero/non-zero radial contact line forces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01637

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zbMATH Keywords

classical linear elasticityfluid-solid interactionstransform methodsPDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solidsnumerical approximation of solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10)

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