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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.453zbMATH Open1419.76147arXiv1906.07118OpenAlexW3104097601WikidataQ100298143 ScholiaQ100298143MaRDI QIDQ5229770FDOQ5229770

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

Publication date: 19 August 2019

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07118

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zbMATH Keywords

lubrication theoryHele-Shaw flowsdrops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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