J053032 Dewetting of Ultra-thin Liquid Film on Solid Substrate

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (0) ◽  
pp. _J053032-1-_J053032-4
Author(s):  
Susumu KONO ◽  
Ichiro UENO
2015 ◽  
Vol 1105 ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varvara Yu. Gordeeva ◽  
Andrey V. Lyushnin

Evaporation of a thin layer of a polar liquid (water) having a free surface and located on a solid substrate is investigated. A surfactant is solved in the liquid film. The surface tension is a linear function of the surface concentration of the surfactant. The surface energy of the solid-liquid interface is a nonmonotonic function of the layer thickness and is the sum of the Van der Waals interaction and the specific interaction of the double electric layer on the interface. The effect of the solvable surfactant on the dynamics of the propagation of the evaporation front in the thin liquid film is analyzed in the long-wave approximation in the system of Navier-Stokes equations.


1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 7421-7423 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Peng ◽  
S. X. He ◽  
P. Dutta ◽  
J. B. Ketterson

2016 ◽  
Vol 810 ◽  
pp. 307-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matvey Morozov ◽  
Ofer Manor

In this paper we revisit the Landau and Levich analysis of a coating flow in the case where the flow in the thin liquid film is supported by a Rayleigh surface acoustic wave (SAW), propagating in the solid substrate. Our theoretical analysis reveals that the geometry of the film evolves under the action of the propagating SAW in a manner that is similar to the evolution of films that are being deposited using the dip coating technique. We show that in a steady state the thin-film evolution equation reduces to a generalized Landau–Levich equation with the dragging velocity, imposed by the SAW, depending on the local film thickness. We demonstrate that the generalized Landau–Levich equation has a branch of stable steady state solutions and a branch of unstable solutions. The branches meet at a saddle-node bifurcation point corresponding to the threshold value of the SAW intensity. Below the threshold value no steady states were found and our numerical computations suggest a gradual thinning of the liquid film from its initial geometry.


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):  
Xiaoxia Hu ◽  
Ali Dolatabadi

The formation of the waves on a thin liquid water film was analytically investigated by studying its shear mode stability. The inclined angle of the substrate is limited to 8°. The purpose of analytical solution is to determine the maximum growth rate of the generated wave as well as its corresponding wave number, which is realized by solving the Orr-Sommerfeld equations for both gas and liquid phases with the corresponding boundary conditions. The results of wave formations on a surface with a thin liquid film of de-icing are validated by previous experimental data as well as compared with Yih’s theoretical analysis [7]. Studies have also conducted on the effect of surface tension or liquid film depth on the stability of a thin liquid film flowing along a solid 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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1301-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Kupershtokh ◽  
E. V. Ermanyuk ◽  
N. V. Gavrilov

AbstractThis paper presents a numerical and experimental study on hydrodynamic behavior of thin liquid films in rectangular domains. Three-dimensional computer simulations were performed using the lattice Boltzmann equation method (LBM). The liquid films laying on solid and liquid substrates are considered. The rupture of liquid films in computations is initiated via the thermocapillary (Marangoni) effect by applying an initial spatially localized temperature perturbation. The rupture scenario is found to depend on the shape of the temperature distribution and on the wettability of the solid substrate. For a wettable solid substrate, complete rupture does not occur: a residual thin liquid film remains at the substrate in the region of pseudo-rupture. For a non-wettable solid substrate, a sharp-peaked axisymmetric temperature distribution induces the rupture at the center of symmetry where the temperature is maximal. Axisymmetric temperature distribution with a flat-peaked temperature profile initiates rupture of the liquid film along a circle at some distance from the center of symmetry. The outer boundary of the rupture expands, while the inner liquid disk transforms into a toroidal figure and ultimately into an oscillating droplet.We also apply the LBM to simulations of an evolution of one or two holes in liquid films for two-layer systems of immiscible fluids in a rectangular cell. The computed patterns are successfully compared against the results of experimental visualizations. Both the experiments and the simulations demonstrate that the initially circular holes evolved in the rectangular cell undergoing drastic changes of their shape under the effects of the surface tension and gravity. In the case of two interacting holes, the disruption of the liquid bridge separating two holes is experimentally observed and numerically simulated.


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