Contact angles of a drop pinned on an incline
arXiv:1610.06725 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.95.052805
Abstract
For a drop on an incline with small tilt angle or small Bond number, when the contact line is a circle, we show that the retentive force factor is exactly pi/2 at first order in the tilt angle or the Bond number. The retentive force factor is the ratio between the weight component along the slope and a capillary force defined as surface tension times radius of contact line times difference of cosines of contact angles at the back and at the front of the drop. The drop profile is computed exactly in the same approximation. These results are compared with Surface Evolver results, showing a surprisingly large range of applicability of first order approximations.
5 pages, 4 figures
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