The motion, stability and breakup of a stretching liquid bridge with a receding contact line

Details The motion, stability and breakup of a stretching liquid bridge with a receding contact line The motion, stability and breakup of a stretching liquid bridge with a receding contact line

2010-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2562v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

37 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

The complex behavior of drop deposition on a hydrophobic surface is considered by looking at a model problem in which the evolution of a constant-volume liquid bridge is studied as the bridge is stretched. The bridge is pinned with a fixed diameter at the upper contact point, but the contact line at the lower attachment point is free to move on a smooth substrate. Experiments indicate that initially, as the bridge is stretched, the lower contact line slowly retreats inwards. However at a critical radius, the bridge becomes unstable, and the contact line accelerates dramatically, moving inwards very quickly. The bridge subsequently pinches off, and a small droplet is left on the substrate. A quasi-static analysis, using the Young-Laplace equation, is used to accurately predict the shape of the bridge during the initial bridge evolution, including the initial onset of the slow contact line retraction. A stability analysis is used to predict the onset of pinch-off, and a one-dimensional dynamical equation, coupled with a Tanner-law for the dynamic contact angle, is used to model the rapid pinch-off behavior. Excellent agreement between numerical predictions and experiments is found throughout the bridge evolution, and the importance of the dynamic contact line model is demonstrated.

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