Precursor Film Formation of Spreading Droplet

Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno ◽  
Kanji Hirose ◽  
Yusuke Kizaki

We focus on a formation process of a quite thin liquid film, known as ‘precursor film,’ ahead a droplet spreading on a smooth solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with a movement of a visible boundary line so-called ‘macroscopic contact line.’ Existing studies have indicated there exist two major regions of the precursor film, that is, a region dominated by the fluid dynamics, and a region dominated by the molecular diffusion. Our group has dedicated our special effort to detect the formation process of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film. In the present study, the existing length of the precursor film at a very early stage of the droplet spreading is evaluated by applying a Brewster-angle microscopy as well as the interferometer. We extend our attention to the advancing process of the precursor film on inclined substrate.

Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno ◽  
Kanji Hirose ◽  
Yusuke Kizaki ◽  
Yoshiaki Kisara ◽  
Yoshizumi Fukuhara

The authors pay their special attention to formation process of wafer-thin liquid film, known as ‘precursor film,’ ahead moving macroscopic contact line of a droplet spreading on a solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of a visible boundary line so-called ‘macroscopic contact line.’ Existing studies have indicated there exits a thin liquid film known as ‘precursor film’ ahead the macroscopic contact line of the droplet. The present author’s group has dedicated their special effort to detect the formation process of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film. In the present study, existing length of the precursor film at a very early stage of the droplet spreading is evaluated by applying a Brewster-angle microscopy as well as the interferometer. The authors extend their attention to the advancing process of the precursor film on inclined substrate.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno ◽  
Kanji Hirose ◽  
Yusuke Kizaki ◽  
Yoshiaki Kisara ◽  
Yoshizumi Fukuhara

The authors pay their special attention to formation process of wafer-thin liquid film, known as “precursor film,” ahead moving macroscopic contact line of a droplet spreading on a solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of a visible boundary line so-called “macroscopic contact line.” Existing studies have indicated there exits a thin liquid film known as precursor film ahead the macroscopic contact line of the droplet. The present author’s group has dedicated their special effort to detect the formation process of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film. In the present study, existing length of the precursor film at a very early stage of the droplet spreading is evaluated by applying a Brewster-angle microscopy as well as the interferometer. The authors extend their attention to the advancing process of the precursor film on inclined substrate.


Author(s):  
Ichiro Ueno

The author introduces a series of experimental studies on a simple but complex wetting process; a droplet spreads on a solid substrate. The spreading droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of a visible boundary line so-called ‘macroscopic contact line.’ Existing studies have indicated there exits a thin liquid film known as ‘precursor film’ ahead the macroscopic contact line of the droplet. The present author’s group has dedicated their special effort to detect the advancing edge of the precursor film by applying a convectional laser interferometry and a high-speed camera, and to evaluate the spreading rate of the precursor film.


2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shota HASHIMOTO ◽  
Chungpyo HONG ◽  
Ichiro UENO

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. E. Vasil’ev ◽  
Yu. G. Matvienko ◽  
A. V. Pankov ◽  
A. G. Kalinin

The results of using early damage diagnostics technique (developed in the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN) for detecting the latent damage of an aviation panel made of composite material upon bench tensile tests are presented. We have assessed the capabilities of the developed technique and software regarding damage detection at the early stage of panel loading in conditions of elastic strain of the material using brittle strain-sensitive coating and simultaneous crack detection in the coating with a high-speed video camera “Video-print” and acoustic emission system “A-Line 32D.” When revealing a subsurface defect (a notch of the middle stringer) of the aviation panel, the general concept of damage detection at the early stage of loading in conditions of elastic behavior of the material was also tested in the course of the experiment, as well as the software specially developed for cluster analysis and classification of detected location pulses along with the equipment and software for simultaneous recording of video data flows and arrays of acoustic emission (AE) data. Synchronous recording of video images and AE pulses ensured precise control of the cracking process in the brittle strain-sensitive coating (tensocoating)at all stages of the experiment, whereas the use of structural-phenomenological approach kept track of the main trends in damage accumulation at different structural levels and identify the sources of their origin when classifying recorded AE data arrays. The combined use of oxide tensocoatings and high-speed video recording synchronized with the AE control system, provide the possibility of definite determination of the subsurface defect, reveal the maximum principal strains in the area of crack formation, quantify them and identify the main sources of AE signals upon monitoring the state of the aviation panel under loading P = 90 kN, which is about 12% of the critical load.


2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 02028
Author(s):  
Hassan Zulkifli Abu ◽  
Ibrahim Aniza ◽  
Mohamad Nor Norazman

Small-scale blast tests were carried out to observe and measure the influence of sandy soil towards explosive blast intensity. The tests were to simulate blast impact imparted by anti-vehicular landmine to a lightweight armoured vehicle (LAV). Time of occurrence of the three phases of detonation phase in soil with respect to upward translation time of the test apparatus were recorded using high-speed video camera. At the same time the target plate acceleration was measured using shock accelerometer. It was observed that target plate deformation took place at early stage of the detonation phase before the apparatus moved vertically upwards. Previous data of acceleration-time history and velocity-time history from air blast detonation were compared. It was observed that effects of soil funnelling on blast wave together with the impact from soil ejecta may have contributed to higher blast intensity that characterized detonation in soil, where detonation in soil demonstrated higher plate velocity compared to what occurred in air blast detonation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 784 ◽  
pp. 465-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Espín ◽  
Satish Kumar

Wetting of permeable substrates by liquids is an important phenomenon in many natural and industrial processes. Substrate heterogeneities may significantly alter liquid spreading and interface shapes, which in turn may alter liquid imbibition. A new lubrication-theory-based model for droplet spreading on permeable substrates that incorporates surface roughness is developed in this work. The substrate is assumed to be saturated with liquid, and the contact-line region is described by including a precursor film and disjoining pressure. A novel boundary condition for liquid imbibition is applied that eliminates the need for a droplet-thickness-dependent substrate permeability that has been employed in previous models. A nonlinear evolution equation describing droplet height as a function of time and the radial coordinate is derived and then numerically solved to characterize the influence of substrate permeability and roughness on axisymmetric droplet spreading. Because it incorporates surface roughness, the new model is able to describe the contact-line pinning that has been observed in experiments but not captured by previous models.


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