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Recent progress in the moving contact line problem: a review

✍ Scribed by Yves Pomeau


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
French
Weight
132 KB
Volume
330
Category
Article
ISSN
1631-0721

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✦ Synopsis


As pointed out long ago by Laplace, viscosity may become a large perturbation to capillary phenomena, especially close to solid surfaces where molecules may stick. A spectacular consequence of this is the impossibility for a triple line to move on a solid if the liquid/vapor interface is considered as a material surface and if the usual no slip boundary condition is enforced. As shown recently this specific phenomenon of contact line motion can be described by coupled van der Waals and fluid equations, yielding a rational theory that is divergence free and consistent with the equilibrium results. Far from the triple line, the equations of fluid mechanics are recovered in their usual form. In this approach, the contact line move close to the solid by evaporation or condensation, which requires (for evaporation) the molecules to jump above a high potential barrier on their way from the liquid to the vapor. An Arrhenius factor makes this process intrinsically slow, compared to molecular speeds. For (realistic) very small Arrhenius factors, the motion of the triple line induces a dynamical change of the functions in the van der Waals equations. This may lead to dynamical wetting and dewetting transitions, that is, to a change of the contact angle from a finite to a zero value or conversely. The dynamical wetting transition has been observed in liquids flowing down a plate (see Blake and Ruschak, Nature 282 (1979) 489-491) cusps on the contact line appear when it recedes faster than the speed of transition. Similar ideas account well also for the known sensitivity of contact line mobility to vapor pressure. To cite this article: Y. Pomeau, C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 207-222.  2002 Académie des sciences/Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS computational fluid mechanics / moving contact line / phase field / kinetic retardation

Progrès récents sur la ligne de contact mobile : une revue Résumé

Comme remarqué il y a longtemps par Laplace, la viscosité peut devenir une source de perturbation importante aux phénomènes capillaires, particulièrement près des surfaces solides auxquelles les particules fluides adhèrent. Une conséquence spectaculaire en est l'impossibilité pour la ligne triple de bouger sur un solide si l'on considère l'interface liquide/vapeur comme une surface matérielle et qu'on impose la condition de non glissement des fluides sur le solide. On a montré récemment que ce phénomène spécifique de mouvement de la ligne de contact peut être décrit en couplant les équations de van der Waals et fluides, ce qui conduit à une théorie rationelle sans divergence et qui reste cohérente avec les résultats de l'équilibre (sans mouvement). Loin de la ligne triple, les équations de la mécanique des fluides s'appliquent sous leur forme habituelle. Dans


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