Dynamic contact angle of a liquid spreading on an unsaturated wettable porous substrate

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DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.517zbMATH Open1284.76123arXiv1210.1396OpenAlexW2137242993WikidataQ59413795 ScholiaQ59413795MaRDI QIDQ5406471FDOQ5406471


Authors: Y. D. Shikhmurzaev, J. E. Sprittles Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 April 2014

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

Abstract: The spreading of an incompressible viscous liquid over an isotropic homogeneous unsaturated porous substrate is considered. It is shown that, unlike the dynamic wetting of an impermeable solid substrate, where the dynamic contact angle has to be specified as a boundary condition in terms of the wetting velocity and other flow characteristics, the `effective' dynamic contact angle on an unsaturated porous substrate is completely determined by the requirement of existence of a solution, i.e. the absence of a nonintegrable singularity in the spreading fluid's pressure at the `effective' contact line. The obtained velocity dependence of the `effective' contact angle determines the critical point at which a transition to a different flow regime takes place, where the fluid above the substrate stops spreading whereas the wetting front inside it continues to propagate.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1396




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