Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.526MaRDI QIDQ5093790zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 1 August 2022

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

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09575

zbMATH Keywords

critical capillary numberdynamical systems theoryeigenmodefinite-amplitude perturbationlinear stability analysisphase space trajectory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Liquid-liquid two component flows (76T06) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

Abstract: The moving-contact line between a fluid, liquid and a solid is a ubiquitous phenomenon, and determining the maximum speed at which a liquid can wet/dewet a solid is a practically important problem. Using continuum models, previous studies have shown that the maximum speed of wetting/dewetting can be found by calculating steady solutions of the governing equations and locating the critical capillary number, $C{a}_{mathrmcrit}$, above which no steady-state solution can be found. Below $C{a}_{mathrmcrit}$, both stable and unstable steady-state solutions exist and if some appropriate measure of these solutions is plotted against $Ca$, a fold bifurcation appears where the stable and unstable branches meet. Interestingly, the significance of this bifurcation structure to the transient dynamics has yet to be explored. This article develops a computational model and uses ideas from dynamical systems theory to show the profound importance of the unstable solutions on the transient behaviour. By perturbing the stable state by the eigenmodes calculated from a linear stability analysis it is shown that the unstable branch is responsible for the eventual dynamical outcomes and that the system can become unstable when $Ca<C{a}_{mathrmcrit}$ due to finite amplitude perturbations. Furthermore, when $Ca>C{a}_{mathrmcrit}$, we will show that the trajectories in phase space closely follow the unstable branch.

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• Trilinos
• SuperLU

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