Contact Line Pinning and Depinning Prior to Rupture of an Evaporating Droplet in a Simulated Soil Pore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha P. Chakraborty ◽  
Melanie M. Derby
Keyword(s):  
Contact Line ◽  
Pressure Difference ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
Marginal Rate ◽  
Vapor Interface ◽  
Hydrophobic Pore ◽  
Contact Line Pinning ◽  
Liquid Vapor

Abstract Altering soil wettability by inclusion of hydrophobicity could be an effective way to restrict evaporation from soil, thereby conserving water resources. In this study, 4-μL sessile water droplets were evaporated from an artificial soil millipore comprised of three glass (i.e. hydrophilic) and Teflon (i.e. hydrophobic) 2.38-mm-diameter beads. The distance between the beads were kept constant (i.e. center-to-center spacing of 3.1 mm). Experiments were conducted in an environmental chamber at an air temperature of 20°C and 30% and 75% relative humidity (RH). Evaporation rates were faster (i.e. ∼19 minutes and ∼49 minutes at 30% and 75% RH) from hydrophilic pores than the Teflon one (i.e. ∼24 minutes and ∼52 minutes at 30% and 75% RH) due in part to greater air-water contact area. Rupture of liquid droplets during evaporation was analyzed and predictions were made on rupture based on contact line pinning and depinning, projected surface area just before rupture, and pressure difference across liquid-vapor interface. It was observed that, in hydrophilic pore, the liquid droplet was pinned on one bead and the contact line on the other beads continuously decreased by deforming the liquid-vapor interface, though all three gas-liquid-solid contact lines decreased at a marginal rate in hydrophobic pore. For hydrophilic and hydrophobic pores, approximately 1.7 mm2 and 1.8–2 mm2 projected area of the droplet was predicted at 30% and 75% RH just before rupture occurs. Associated pressure difference responsible for rupture was estimated based on the deformation of curvature of liquid-vapor interface.

Measurement of Liquid Droplet Evaporation Rate under the Conditions of Intense Heating

2014 ◽  
Vol 698 ◽  
pp. 603-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenija Orlova ◽  
Dmitriy Feoktistov
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Evaporation Rate ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
Droplet Evaporation ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Anodized Aluminum ◽  
Specific Evaporation Rate ◽  
Contact Line Pinning ◽  
Contact Diameter

This paper presents an experimental study of the evaporation of a sessile water-sodium chlorides solution drop to open atmosphere on the solid substrate (anodized aluminum) under the varying heat flux. The main parameters defining drop profile, i. e., contact diameter, contact angle, and height of the drop have been obtained. Specific evaporation rate has been calculated. According to the data analysis it was found, that the sessile water-sodium chlorides solution drop with the highest concentration (16.7%) evaporates in the "reverse depinning" mode. So, there is movement of the contact line in the direction of increasing the surface occupied by the drop. The sessile water and water-sodium chlorides solution drop with 4.8% and 9.1% concentration evaporates in the contact line pinning mode. The influence of the initial concentration of the evaporated solution on the contact angle and the specific evaporation rate was found out.

Development of a Liquid Dynamic Seal to Vacuum

1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 738-747
Author(s):  
E. Schnetzer ◽  
R. J. Rossbach
Keyword(s):  
Rotating Machinery ◽  
Leakage Rate ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
System Technology ◽  
Experimental Development ◽  
Vapor Interface ◽  
Second Development ◽  
Design Life ◽  
Dynamic Seal ◽  
Liquid Vapor

In the development of the advanced Rankine space power system technology the rotating machinery is to run on potassium-lubricated bearings. The alternator rotor cavity is evacuated either by venting to space or through artificial means. This reduces rotor windage losses to an acceptable level from the standpoint of alternator efficiency and rotor cooling. The problem investigated was the dynamic seal between the pressurized liquid potassium in the bearing cavity and the vacuum in the alternator rotor cavity. No rubbing seals are permitted because of the high rubbing speeds and the design life in excess of three years. In such a seal there must be a liquid-vapor interface. The objective was to keep the leakage rate at this interface below 10 lb/yr. The experimental development of two dynamic seals meeting the leakage tolerance objective is described. Easily resolved was the problem of maintaining a significant pressure difference across the seal. In the first development the main accomplishment was to solve the problem associated with the breakdown of the liquid-vapor interface which resulted in “sputtering”, an intermittent leakage of liquid droplets. The main accomplishment of the second development was a significant reduction in power consumption by the seal.

PINNING OF A SOLID–LIQUID–VAPOR INTERFACE

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (09) ◽  
pp. 359-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
JØRGEN VITTING ANDERSEN
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Hamiltonian Approach ◽  
Pinning Centers ◽  
Vapor Interface ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Liquid Vapor

We propose a macroscopic Hamiltonian approach to study the pinning (sticking) of a solid–liquid–vapor contact line by pinning centers on the solid. We have so far studied the case of a vertical solid immersed into a liquid in the presence of gravity, but the method is general and can easily be extended to other geometries with and without gravity. Using computer simulations the method can be used to give a nonperturbative estimate for whether pinning centers interact cooperatively or independently in the pinning of the contact line.

A Numerical Description of a Liquid-Vapor Interface Based on the Second Gradient Theory

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Jamet ◽  
Olivier Lebaigue ◽  
Jean-Marc Delhaye ◽  
N. Coutris
Keyword(s):  
Gradient Theory ◽  
Vapor Interface ◽  
Second Gradient ◽  
Liquid Vapor

Numerical Analysis of Influence of Roughness of Material Surface on High-Speed Liquid Droplet Impingement

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotoshi Sasaki ◽  
Yuka Iga
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Erosion Rate ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
Material Surface ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Fluid Machinery ◽  
Droplet Impingement ◽  
Surface Liquid ◽  
Droplet Impingement Erosion

This study explains why the deep erosion pits are formed in liquid droplet impingement erosion even though the droplets uniformly impinge on the entire material surface. Liquid droplet impingement erosion occurs in fluid machinery on which droplets impinge at high speed. In the process of erosion, the material surface becomes completely roughened by erosion pits. In addition, most material surface is not completely smooth and has some degree of initial roughness from manufacturing and processing and so on. In this study, to consider the influence of the roughness on the material surface under droplet impingement, a numerical analysis of droplets impinging on the material surface with a single wedge and a single bump was conducted with changing offsets between the droplet impingement centers and the roughness centers on each a wedge bottom and a bump top. As results, two mechanisms are predicted from the present numerical results: the erosion rate accelerates and transitions from the incubation stage to the acceleration stage once roughness occurs on the material surface; the other is that deep erosion pits are formed even in the case of liquid droplets impinging uniformly on the entire material surface.

Liquid–vapor interface of water–methanol mixture. I. Computer simulation

1993 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 1464-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto ◽  
Yuji Takaoka ◽  
Yosuke Kataoka
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Vapor Interface ◽  
Methanol Mixture ◽  
Liquid Vapor

Simulation of Impaction Between Liquid Droplet and Solid Particles Based on SPH Method

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Meng ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Rui Yang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Solid Particle ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
Particle Interaction ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Seed Particle ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Particle Hydrodynamics ◽  
Smoothed Particle ◽  
Spray Granulation

The phenomenon of impaction between liquid droplets and solid particles is involved in many scientific problems and engineering applications, such as impaction between sprayed droplet and solid particles in limestone injection desulfurization system and the collision between a droplet of the liquid to be granulated and a seed particle in fluidized bed spray granulation process. There are a lot of factors affected this phenomenon: droplet and particle size, momentum of both liquid droplet and solid particles, materials, surface conditions of the solid particles and so on. However the experimental or numerical researches have been done mostly pay attention to Specific application or process, so the impaction phenomenon has not been through studied, for example how different factors affected the impaction process with its effect on different applications. This paper focuses on the basic issue of interaction between droplet and solid particles. Three main factors were considered: ratio of diameter between the droplet and solid particle, relative velocity and the surface tension (including the contact angle between droplet and solid particle). All the study is based on simulation using SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) method, and the surface tension is simulated by particle-particle interaction.

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