Controlling the dewetting morphologies of thin liquid films by switchable substrates
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| author | Zitz, Stefan Scagliarini, Andrea Harting, Jens |
| author_facet | Zitz, Stefan Scagliarini, Andrea Harting, Jens |
| contents | Switchable and adaptive substrates emerged as valuable tools for the control of wetting and actuation of droplet motion. Here we report a computational study of the dynamics of an unstable thin liquid film deposited on a switchable substrate, modelled with a space and time varying contact angle. With a static pattern, all the fluid is drained into droplets located around contact angle minima, whereas for a sufficiently large rate of wettability variation a state consisting of metastable rivulets is observed. A criterion discriminating whether rivulets can be observed or not is identified in terms of a single dimensionless parameter. Finally, we show and explain theoretically how the film rupture times, droplet shape and rivulet life time depend on the pattern wavelength and speed. |
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| spellingShingle | Controlling the dewetting morphologies of thin liquid films by switchable substrates Zitz, Stefan Scagliarini, Andrea Harting, Jens Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics Computational Physics Switchable and adaptive substrates emerged as valuable tools for the control of wetting and actuation of droplet motion. Here we report a computational study of the dynamics of an unstable thin liquid film deposited on a switchable substrate, modelled with a space and time varying contact angle. With a static pattern, all the fluid is drained into droplets located around contact angle minima, whereas for a sufficiently large rate of wettability variation a state consisting of metastable rivulets is observed. A criterion discriminating whether rivulets can be observed or not is identified in terms of a single dimensionless parameter. Finally, we show and explain theoretically how the film rupture times, droplet shape and rivulet life time depend on the pattern wavelength and speed. |
| title | Controlling the dewetting morphologies of thin liquid films by switchable substrates |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09770 |