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Flow in an open channel capillary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

L. A. Romero  and
F. G. Yost
L. A. Romero
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800. USA
F. G. Yost
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800. USA
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Abstract

The problem of capillary-driven flow in a V-shaped surface groove is addressed. A nonlinear diffusion equation for the liquid shape is derived from mass conservation and Poiseuille flow conditions. A similarity transformation for this nonlinear equation is obtained and the resulting ordinary differential equation is solved numerically for appropriate boundary conditions. It is shown that the position of the wetting front is proportional to (Dt)½ where D is a diffusion coefficient proportional to the ratio of the liquid-vapour surface tension to viscosity and the groove depth, and a function of the contact angle and the groove angle. For flow into the groove from a sessile drop source it is shown that the groove angle must be greater than the contact angle. Certain arbitrarily shaped grooves are also addressed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 322 , 10 September 1996 , pp. 109 - 129
Copyright
© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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