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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2015

Lattice Boltzmann investigation of droplet inertial spreading on various porous surfaces

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The spreading of liquid drops on solid surfaces is a wide-spread phenomenon of both fundamental and industrial interest. In many applications, surfaces are porous and spreading patterns are very complex with respect to the case on smooth surfaces. Focusing on the inertial spreading just before the Tanner-like viscous regime, this work investigates the spreading of a low-viscosity droplet on a porous surface using lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations. The case of a flat surface is first considered, and it reveals a dependence on the solid equilibrium contact angle θ(s)(eq), which is in good agreement with published experimental data. We conducted numerical experiments with various surfaces perforated by a regular pattern of holes of infinite length. The results show that the global spreading dynamics is independent of the porosity morphology. Through the assumption that, for wetting, the pores can be regarded as surface patches with a contact angle of θ(pore)(eq)=180°, we deduce an effective equilibrium contact angle θ(eff)(eq) on the porous surface from the Cassie-Baxter law. A spreading model is then proposed to describe both a prefactor and an exponent that are similar to a flat surface whose equilibrium contact angle is θ(eff)(eq). This model compares satisfactorily with a large number of numerical experiments under varying conditions.
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hal-01186414 , version 1 (14-04-2020)

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Xavier Frank, Patrick Perre, Huai-Zhi Li. Lattice Boltzmann investigation of droplet inertial spreading on various porous surfaces. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2015, 91 (5), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.91.052405⟩. ⟨hal-01186414⟩
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