The “Wimple”:  Rippled Deformation of a Fluid Drop Caused by Hydrodynamic and Surface Forces during Thin Film Drainage

Langmuir ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 8243-8249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Y. Clasohm ◽  
Jason N. Connor ◽  
Olga I. Vinogradova ◽  
Roger G. Horn
2000 ◽  
Vol 112 (14) ◽  
pp. 6424-6433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Horn ◽  
Olga I. Vinogradova ◽  
Michael E. Mackay ◽  
Nhan Phan-Thien
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1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hartland ◽  
S.A.K. Jeelani ◽  
A. Suter

Langmuir ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 3594-3603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louxiang Wang ◽  
David Sharp ◽  
Jacob Masliyah ◽  
Zhenghe Xu

Author(s):  
Zhe Wang ◽  
Biagio Mandrachia ◽  
Vincenzo Ferraro ◽  
Ernesto Di Maio ◽  
Pier Luca Maffettone ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Jonathan C. Hui ◽  
Peter Huang

In many multiphase fluidic processes, such as in petroleum extraction and biochemical analysis involving microscale conduits, the lodging of immiscible droplets often leads to disastrous flow blockage. Without a thin-film lubrication layer surrounding the adhered droplets, a significantly higher threshold pressure gradient is required to reinitiate bulk flows. In this work, we investigate the surface tension-driven thin-film drainage process that leads to droplet adhesion and study how electrostatic repulsion between a charged droplet interface and a charged conduit wall can prevent direct contact between the two. We report on our multiphysics computational results of an oversized gas droplet in a water-filled flow microchannel under the influence of surface tension and interfacial electrostatic forces.


2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 412-418
Author(s):  
Li-Ming Chu ◽  
Jaw-Ren Lin ◽  
Jiann-Lin Chen

The effects of surface roughness and surface force on thin film elastohydrodynamic lubrication (TFEHL) circular contact problems are analyzed and discussed under constant load condition. The multi-level multi-integration (MLMI) algorithm and the Gauss-Seidel iterative method are used to simultaneously solve the average Reynolds type equation, surface force equations, the load balance equation, the rheology equations, and the elastic deformation equation. The simulation results reveal that the difference between the TFEHL model and the traditional EHL model increase with decreasing film thickness. The effects of surface forces become significant as the film thickness becomes thinner. The surface forces have obvious effects in the Hertzian contact region. The oscillation phenomena in pressure and film thickness come mainly from the action of solvation forces


2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 2060-2066 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Crawford ◽  
Charles R. Koch ◽  
Subir Bhattacharjee

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