Effective slip over superhydrophobic surfaces in thin channels

Details Effective slip over superhydrophobic surfaces in thin channels Effective slip over superhydrophobic surfaces in thin channels

2008-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1393v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

4+ pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.026001

Superhydrophobic surfaces reduce drag by combining hydrophobicity and roughness to trap gas bubbles in a micro- and nanoscopic texture. Recent work has focused on specific cases, such as striped grooves or arrays of pillars, with limited theoretical guidance. Here, we consider the experimentally relevant limit of thin channels and obtain rigorous bounds on the effective slip length for any two-component (e.g. low-slip and high-slip) texture with given area fractions. Among all anisotropic textures, parallel stripes attain the largest (or smallest) possible slip in a straight, thin channel for parallel (or perpendicular) orientation with respect to the mean flow. For isotropic (e.g. chessboard or random) textures, the Hashin-Strikman conditions further constrain the effective slip. These results provide a framework for the rational design of superhydrophobic surfaces.

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