Driven drops with contact line damping

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Abstract

A water droplet placed on a hydrophobic plate is driven by plate-normal oscillations. Resulting droplet motions are largely inviscid, having Reynolds number >100 (Ohnesorge ~0.002). We are interested in isolating the effective damping, sometimes called Davis dissipation, owing to a moving contact line that is not completely mobile. In this talk, we report energy budgets as influenced by contact angle -- contact line speed relationships for variously prepared surfaces.

Authors

  • Yi Xia

    Cornell University

  • Chun-Ti Chang

    Cornell University

  • Paul Steen

    Cornell University