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Numerical Prediction and Experimental Validation of Equilibrium Shapes of Wall Bound Drops
Sagardeep Bhakta,
Published in
2017
   
Issue: 174
Pages: 1 - 8
Abstract
Interfacial phenomena as related to fluid mechanics basically deals with governing laws which determine the behavior of fluids in presence of different phases of matter either similar or dissimilar in constitution, when they are in contact with each other. Such situations often occur in processes and equipments having various industrial applications such as heat pipes, thermal sprays, nebulizers etc. The contact angle provides an inverse measure of wettability. Knowledge of the apparent contact angle and the shape of a drop formed on a substrate are also important in understanding processes such as dropwise condensation, drug delivery, microscale transport physics and adhesive technology, to name a few. The present study seeks to understand and predict drop shapes and their internal pressure for wall bound drops under following configurations: (i) sessile and pendant drops sitting on simple horizontal surface, (ii) drop bound and squeezed by two parallel plates and (iii) drop bound and squeezed by two non-parallel plates.
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Journal6th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow