Slip behavior in liquid films on surfaces of patterned wettability: Comparison between continuum and molecular dynamics simulations

Details Slip behavior in liquid films on surfaces of patterned wettability: Comparison between continuum and molecular dynamics simulations Slip behavior in liquid films on surfaces of patterned wettability: Comparison between continuum and molecular dynamics simulations

2004-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405268v3

Physical Review E 71, 041608 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 10 figures Web reference added for animations: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~priezjev/bubble/bubble.html

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041608

We investigate the behavior of the slip length in Newtonian liquids subject to planar shear bounded by substrates with mixed boundary conditions. The upper wall, consisting of a homogenous surface of finite or vanishing slip, moves at a constant speed parallel to a lower stationary wall, whose surface is patterned with an array of stripes representing alternating regions of no-shear and finite or no-slip. Velocity fields and effective slip lengths are computed both from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and solution of the Stokes equation for flow configurations either parallel or perpendicular to the stripes. Excellent agreement between the hydrodynamic and MD results is obtained when the normalized width of the slip regions, $a/\sigma \gtrsim {\cal O}(10)$, where $\sigma$ is the (fluid) molecular diameter characterizing the Lennard-Jones interaction. In this regime, the effective slip length increases monotonically with $a/\sigma$ to a saturation value. For $a/\sigma \lesssim {\cal O}(10)$ and transverse flow configurations, the non-uniform interaction potential at the lower wall constitutes a rough surface whose molecular scale corrugations strongly reduce the effective slip length below the hydrodynamic results. The translational symmetry for longitudinal flow eliminates the influence of molecular scale roughness; however, the reduced molecular ordering above the wetting regions of finite slip for small values of $a/\sigma$ increases the value of the effective slip length far above the hydrodynamic predictions. The strong inverse correlation between the effective slip length and the liquid structure factor representative of the first fluid layer near the patterned wall illustrates the influence of molecular ordering effects on slip in non-inertial flows.

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