Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-04-29
Langmuir 25, 8357 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
17 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Langmuir
Scientific paper
We model an infinitely long liquid bridge confined between two plates chemically patterned by stripes of same width and different contact angle, where the three-phase contact line runs, on average, perpendicular to the stripes. This allows us to study the corrugation of a contact line in the absence of pinning. We find that, if the spacing between the plates is large compared to the length scale of the surface patterning, the cosine of the macroscopic contact angle corresponds to an average of cosines of the intrinsic angles of the stripes, as predicted by the Cassie equation. If, however, the spacing becomes of order the length scale of the pattern there is a sharp crossover to a regime where the macroscopic contact angle varies between the intrinsic contact angle of each stripe, as predicted by the local Young equation. The results are obtained using two numerical methods, Lattice Boltzmann (a diffuse interface approach) and Surface Evolver (a sharp interface approach), thus giving a direct comparison of two popular numerical approaches to calculating drop shapes when applied to a non-trivial contact line problem. We find that the two methods give consistent results if we take into account a line tension in the free energy. In the lattice Boltzmann approach, the line tension arises from discretisation effects at the diffuse three phase contact line.
Cabrerizo-Vilchez M. A.
Kusumaatmaja Halim
Montes Ruiz-Cabello F. J.
Rodriguez-Valverde Miguel Angel
Yeomans Julia M.
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