Dynamic drying transition via free-surface cusps
We study air entrainment by a solid plate plunging into a viscous liquid, theoretically and numerically. At dimensionless speeds $Ca=U\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}$ of order unity, a near-cusp forms due to the presence of a moving contact line. The radius of curvature of the cusp’s t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of fluid mechanics 2019-01, Vol.858, p.760-786 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We study air entrainment by a solid plate plunging into a viscous liquid, theoretically and numerically. At dimensionless speeds
$Ca=U\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}$
of order unity, a near-cusp forms due to the presence of a moving contact line. The radius of curvature of the cusp’s tip scales with the slip length multiplied by an exponential of
$-Ca$
. The pressure from the air flow drawn inside the cusp leads to a bifurcation, at which air is entrained, i.e. there is ‘wetting failure’. We develop an analytical theory of the threshold to air entrainment, which predicts the critical capillary number to depend logarithmically on the viscosity ratio, with corrections coming from the slip in the gas phase. |
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ISSN: | 0022-1120 1469-7645 |
DOI: | 10.1017/jfm.2018.794 |