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1. Non-isothermal spreading of liquid drops on horizontal plates A paper by P. Ehrhard and S. Davis
Presented by Lael Fisher
Tuesday January 28, 2003
2. Why is this important? coating technology
mould filling
performance of fuel tanks in space
cited 66 times (Web of Science)
innovative heat pipe systems (Zhang 2001)
spin coating (Kitamura 2001)
fluid dispensing process (Chen et. al. 2000)
3. Whats new? angle v. speed generalized: U = ? (?-?A)m
gravity
plate uniformly heated or cooled
4. Mobility Exponent found empirically
m = 1 (Greenspan)
m = 3 (Schwartz & Tejeda)
m = infinity (constant contact angle)
5. Problem Formulation & B.C.s Navier - Stokes
Continuity Equation
Energy Equation
no-slip at rigid boundary relaxed to avoid the appearance of shear-stress singularity at moving contact line
6. Procedure I.C.s
symmetry conditions
smoothness conditions
conservation of volume
contact angle conditions
non-dimensionalize variables
O(1) problem gives lubrication approximation
dimensionless parameters appear
7. Evolution Equation lubrication approx. gives evolution eqn
solve for velocity field
experiment agreement
Marangoni number
= 0
> 0
< 0
8. Results: Isothermal Spreading M = 0
modified Bessel functions (1st kind)
gravity
no fluid motion at steady state
9. Results: Isothermal Spreading
10. Results: Non-Isothermal Spreading (heating) fluid flow always present
no gravity
as M increases, heating slows drop spreading and limits drop size
11. Results: Non-Isothermal Spreading (Cooling) thermocapillary flow reversed
flatter drops
no gravity
aids spreading
12. Results:Cooling and Heating top ?A = 0
bottom ?A = 0.5
top line on each figure is an approximation (which breaks down)
13. Molecular Connection (de Gennes) small-scale physics of contact lines
model long-range van der Waals repulsion
no contact line nearby drop
precursor film from main drop
do not consider film edge contact line
14. Conclusions non-isothermal
heating retards spreading
cooling augments spreading
?A= 0
isothermal drop goes to infinity
plate heated, drop will spread finitely far
plate cooled, drop goes to infinity faster
gravity
important at large times
determines power law for unlimited spreading
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Zhang N.L. Innovative heat pipe systems using a new working fluid. Int Commun Heat Mass. 28(8): 1025-1033 Nov 2001
Kitamura A. Thermal effects on liquid film flow during spin coating. Phys. Fluids 13(10): 2788-2794 Oct. 2001
Chen X.B., Schoenau G., Zhan W.J. Modeling of time-pressure fluid dispensing processes. IEEE T Electron Pa M. 23 (4): 300-305 Oct. 2000