Tuesday, February 26, 2013

1302.6176 (Andrea Cavalli et al.)

Modelling unidirectional liquid spreading on slanted microposts    [PDF]

Andrea Cavalli, Matthew L. Blow, Julia M. Yeomans
A lattice Boltzmann algorithm is used to simulate the slow spreading of drops on a surface patterned with slanted micro-posts. Gibb's pinning of the interface on the sides or top of the posts leads to unidirectional spreading over a wide range of contact angles and inclination angles of the posts. Regimes for spreading in no, one or two directions are identified, and shown to agree well with a two-dimensional theory proposed in Chu, Xiao and Wang (Nature Materials, 9, 413). A more detailed numerical analysis of the contact line shapes allows us to understand deviations from the two dimensional model, and to identify the shapes of the pinned interfaces.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6176

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