Capillary levelling of immiscible bilayer films

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.1045zbMATH Open1461.76039arXiv2005.01974OpenAlexW2938715842WikidataQ120339140 ScholiaQ120339140MaRDI QIDQ5853530FDOQ5853530

Authors: Vincent Bertin, Carmen L. Lee, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël, Kari Dalnoki-Veress 

Publication date: 10 March 2021

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

Abstract: Flow in thin films is highly dependent on the boundary conditions. Here, we study the capillary levelling of thin bilayer films composed of two immiscible liquids. Specifically, a stepped polymer layer is placed atop another, flat polymer layer. The Laplace pressure gradient resulting from the curvature of the step induces flow in both layers, which dissipates the excess capillary energy stored in the stepped interface. The effect of different viscosity ratios between the bottom and top layers is investigated. We invoke a long-wave expansion of low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics to model the energy dissipation due to the coupled viscous flows in the two layers. Good agreement is found between the experiments and the model. Analysis of the latter further reveals an interesting double crossover in time, from Poiseuille flow, to plug flow, and finally to Couette flow. The crossover time scales depend on the viscosity ratio between the two liquids, allowing for the dissipation mechanisms to be selected and finely tuned by varying this ratio.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01974

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zbMATH Keywords

thin filmscapillary flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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