Film thickness distribution in gravity-driven pancake-shaped droplets rising in a Hele-Shaw cell

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.453MaRDI QIDQ5229770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Isha Shukla, Nicolas Kofman, Gioele Balestra, Lailai Zhu, François Gallaire

Publication date 19 August 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07118, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7116120

zbMATH Keywords

dropsHele-Shaw flowslubrication theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Lubrication theory (76D08) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Abstract: We study here experimentally, numerically and using a lubrication approach; the shape, velocity and lubrication film thickness distribution of a droplet rising in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell. The droplet is surrounded by a stationary immiscible fluid and moves purely due to buoyancy. A low density difference between the two mediums helps to operate in a regime with capillary number $Ca$ lying between $0.03-0.35$, where $Ca=m{u}_o{U}_d/gamma$ is built with the surrounding oil viscosity $m{u}_o$, the droplet velocity $U_d$ and surface tension $gamma$. The experimental data shows that in this regime the droplet velocity is not influenced by the thickness of the thin lubricating film and the dynamic meniscus. For iso-viscous cases, experimental and three-dimensional numerical results of the film thickness distribution agree well with each other. The mean film thickness is well captured by the Aussillous & Qu'er'e (2000) model with fitting parameters. The droplet also exhibits the catamaran shape that has been identified experimentally for a pressure-driven counterpart (Huerre $extitetal$. 2015). This pattern has been rationalized using a two-dimensional lubrication equation. In particular, we show that this peculiar film thickness distribution is intrinsically related to the anisotropy of the fluxes induced by the droplet's motion.

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