Viscoelastic wetting: Cox-Voinov theory with normal stress effects
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| author | Kansal, Minkush Bertin, Vincent Datt, Charu Eggers, Jens Snoeijer, Jacco H. |
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| contents | The classical Cox-Voinov theory of contact line motion provides a relation between the macroscopically observable contact angle, and the microscopic wetting angle as a function of contact line velocity. Here we investigate how viscoelasticity, specifically the normal stress effect, modifies wetting dynamics. Using the thin film equation for the second-order fluid, it is found that the normal stress effect is dominant at small scales. We show that the effect can be incorporated in the Cox-Voinov theory through an apparent microscopic angle, which differs from the true microscopic angle. The theory is applied to the classical problems of drop spreading and dip-coating, which shows how normal stress facilitates (inhibits) the motion of advancing (receding) contact lines. For rapid advancing motion, the apparent microscopic angle can tend to zero in which case the dynamics is described by a new regime that was already anticipated in Boudaoud (2007). |
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| spellingShingle | Viscoelastic wetting: Cox-Voinov theory with normal stress effects Kansal, Minkush Bertin, Vincent Datt, Charu Eggers, Jens Snoeijer, Jacco H. Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter The classical Cox-Voinov theory of contact line motion provides a relation between the macroscopically observable contact angle, and the microscopic wetting angle as a function of contact line velocity. Here we investigate how viscoelasticity, specifically the normal stress effect, modifies wetting dynamics. Using the thin film equation for the second-order fluid, it is found that the normal stress effect is dominant at small scales. We show that the effect can be incorporated in the Cox-Voinov theory through an apparent microscopic angle, which differs from the true microscopic angle. The theory is applied to the classical problems of drop spreading and dip-coating, which shows how normal stress facilitates (inhibits) the motion of advancing (receding) contact lines. For rapid advancing motion, the apparent microscopic angle can tend to zero in which case the dynamics is described by a new regime that was already anticipated in Boudaoud (2007). |
| title | Viscoelastic wetting: Cox-Voinov theory with normal stress effects |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11114 |