Two-dimensional droplet spreading over random topographical substrates

Details Two-dimensional droplet spreading over random topographical substrates Two-dimensional droplet spreading over random topographical substrates

2009-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/0912.5284v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

12 pages, 5 figures

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We examine theoretically the effects of random topographical substrates on the motion of two-dimensional droplets via appropriate statistical approaches. Different random substrate families are represented as stationary random functions. The variance of the droplet shift at both early times and in the long-time limit is deduced and the droplet footprint is found to be a normal random variable at all times. It is shown that substrate roughness decreases droplet wetting, illustrating also the tendency of the droplet to slide without spreading as equilibrium is approached. Our theoretical predictions are verified by numerical experiments.

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