Impalement transitions in droplets impacting microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces

Details Impalement transitions in droplets impacting microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces Impalement transitions in droplets impacting microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces

2008-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4648v1

Europhysics Letters 83, 64002 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/83/64002

Liquid droplets impacting a superhydrophobic surface decorated with micro-scale posts often bounce off the surface. However, by decreasing the impact velocity droplets may land on the surface in a fakir state, and by increasing it posts may impale droplets that are then stuck on the surface. We use a two-phase lattice-Boltzmann model to simulate droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces, and show that it may result in a fakir state also for reasonable high impact velocities. This happens more easily if the surface is made more hydrophobic or the post height is increased, thereby making the impaled state energetically less favourable.

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