Collisions and rebounds of chemically active droplets

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.1055MaRDI QIDQ5210708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors K. Lippera, Matvey Morozov, Michael Benzaquen, Sébastien Michelin

Publication date 21 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04621

zbMATH Keywords

dropslow-Reynolds-number flowspropulsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

Abstract: Active droplets swim as a result of the nonlinear advective coupling of the distribution of chemical species they consume or release with the Marangoni flows created by their non-uniform surface distribution. Most existing models focus on the self-propulsion of a single droplet in an unbounded fluid, which arises when diffusion is slow enough (i.e. beyond a critical P'eclet number, $mbox{Pe}_c$). Despite its experimental relevance, the coupled dynamics of multiple droplets and/or collision with a wall remains mostly unexplored. Using a novel approach based on a moving fitted bispherical grid, the fully-coupled nonlinear dynamics of the chemical solute and flow fields are solved here to characterise in detail the axisymmetric collision of an active droplet with a rigid wall (or with a second droplet). The dynamics is strikingly different depending on the convective-to-diffusive transport ratio, $mboxPe$: near the self-propulsion threshold (moderate $mboxPe$), the rebound dynamics are set by chemical interactions and are well captured by asymptotic analysis; in contrast, for larger $mboxPe$, a complex and nonlinear combination of hydrodynamic and chemical effects set the detailed dynamics, including a closer approach to the wall and a velocity plateau shortly after the rebound of the droplet. The rebound characteristics, i.e. minimum distance and duration, are finally fully characterised in terms of $mboxPe$.

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