An analytical study of capillary rise dynamics: critical conditions and hidden oscillations

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2023.133895MaRDI QIDQ6090645FDO

Authors Mathis Fricke, El Assad Ouro-Koura, Suraj Raju, Regine von Klitzing, Joël De Coninck, Dieter Bothe

Publication date 17 November 2023

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05939

zbMATH Keywords

oscillationdynamic wettingcapillary riseregime transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX) Geophysics (86-XX)

Abstract: The rise of a liquid column inside a thin capillary against the action of gravity is a prototypical example of a dynamic wetting process and plays an important role for applications but also for fundamental research in the area of multiphase fluid dynamics. Since the pioneering work by Lucas and Washburn, many research articles have been published which aim at a simplified description of the capillary rise dynamics using complexity-reduced models formulated as ordinary differential equations. Despite the fact that these models are based on profound simplifications, they may still be able to describe the essential physical mechanisms and their interplay. In this study, we focus on the phenomenon of oscillations of the liquid column. The latter has been observed experimentally for liquids with sufficiently small viscosity leading to comparably small viscous dissipation. Back in 1999, Quere et al. formulated a condition for the appearance of rise height oscillations for an ODE model introduced by Bosanquet in 1923. This model has later been extended to include further dissipative mechanisms. In this work, we extend the mathematical analysis to a larger class of models including additional channels of dissipation. We show that Quere's critical condition is generalized to $$, where $Omega$ was introduced earlier and $$ is an additional non-dimensional parameter describing, e.g., contact line friction. A quantitative prediction of the oscillation dynamics is achieved from a linearization of the governing equations. We apply the theory to experimental data by Quere et al. and, in particular, reveal the oscillatory behavior of dynamics for the nearly critically damped case of ethanol.

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