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Wetting Film Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Oleg V. Voinov

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 74 KB
Volume: 226
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-9797
DOI: 10.1006/jcis.2000.6728

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✦ Synopsis

The spreading of a tiny macroscopic drop of a nonvolatile, completely wetting liquid over a flat solid is considered, assuming no gravitation. A liquid, in creeping, is subjected to capillary forces and van der Waals forces. This nonstationary and nonlinear problem in the dynamics of the wetting film from a droplet is studied using numerical modeling. The precursor wetting film motion is described by an evolution equation with conditions at the moving boundaries. The wetting line is regarded as an unknown boundary to be determined in the course of solution. A simplified equation for the wetting line dynamics is analyzed. The difference between the wetting line radius and a fixed (nonzero) radius is described by a diffusion time law. Results of numerical experiments show the simplified law of wetting to be valid over a wide range of spreading times (or a wide range of radii of the wetting line).

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